-pro

Translingual

Etymology

PIE word
*pró

Abbreviation of New Latin proto-, from Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos, “first, firstmost”), from Ancient Greek πρό (pró, “before”), from Proto-Hellenic *pró, from Proto-Indo-European *pró, Proto-Indo-European *per-.

Suffix

-pro

1. (linguistics) proto-; proto-language; used to create the language codes of proto-languages from the language codes of language families.

   ‎itc (“Italic languages”) + ‎-pro → ‎itc-pro (“Proto-Italic”)

   ‎ine (“Indo-European languages”) + ‎-pro → ‎ine-pro (“Proto-Indo-European”)