Ursprache

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English

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from German Ursprache.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈʊəspɹɑːkə/,
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • (Germanised) IPA(key): /ˈuːɹʃpɹaːxə/

Noun

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Ursprache (plural Ursprachen)

  1. A proto-language.
    • 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:
      I had lost him. He might have been speaking Ursprache, for all that I understood.

Anagrams

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German

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German Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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ur- +‎ Sprache

Pronunciation

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Noun

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Ursprache f (genitive Ursprache, plural Ursprachen)

  1. proto-language
  2. original language
    Synonym: Originalsprache

Declension

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Further reading

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  • Ursprache” in Duden online
  • Ursprache” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache