Pre-Greek
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English
Etymology
Calque of German Vorgriechische. By surface analysis, pre- + Greek.
Proper noun
- a hypothetical language (or languages) conjectured to have been spoken in prehistoric Greece before the arrival of Proto-Greek speakers, and used to explain the large number of non-Indo-European words found in Ancient Greek.
Adjective
- Of or relating to such language or its speakers.
- Alternative form: pre-Greek
- Pre-Greek substrate
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References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2014) Stefan Norbruis, editor, Pre-Greek: Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 1