"proethnic" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1888, Charles Rockwell Lanman, A Sanskrit reader: With Vocabulary and Notes, Ginn and Company, page 175:",
          "text": "The original meaning of the root is 'put'; but, from the proethnic period, a secondary development in the line ('set,' 'establish,' and so) 'make,' 'do,' is clear.",
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          "ref": "1910, Carl Darling Buck, Introduction to the study of the Greek dialects; grammar, selected inscriptions, glossary, Ginn and Company, page 63:",
          "text": "Since νς + consonant lost its y in proethnic Greek (77.2), the same would be true of final νς in close combination with a following word beginning with a consonant.",
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      "ipa": "/pɹəʊˈɛθ.nɪk/",
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