"-pro" meaning in Translingual

See -pro in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Suffix

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-. Etymology templates: {{root|mul|ine-pro|*per-}}, {{PIE word|mul|pró}} PIE word *pró, {{abbrev|mul|la-new:proto-}} Abbreviation of New Latin proto-, {{der|mul|grc|πρῶτος|t=first, firstmost}} Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos, “first, firstmost”), {{der|mul|grc|πρό|t=before}} Ancient Greek πρό (pró, “before”), {{der|mul|grk-pro|*pró}} Proto-Hellenic *pró, {{der|mul|ine-pro|*pró}} Proto-Indo-European *pró, {{der|mul|ine-pro|*per-}} Proto-Indo-European *per- Head templates: {{head|mul|suffix}} -pro
  1. (linguistics) proto-; proto-language; used to create the language codes of proto-languages from the language codes of language families. Tags: morpheme
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        "Translingual terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
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