The Proto-Germanic language is not directly attested by any surviving texts but has been reconstructed using the comparative method. However, a few surviving inscriptions in a runic script from Scandinavia dated to c. 200 are thought to represent a stage of Proto-Norse or, according to Bernard Comrie, Late Common Germanic immediately following the "Proto-Germanic" stage. Proto-Germanic is itself descended from Proto-Indo-European (PIE).

Words in Proto-Germanic written in this article are transcribed using the system described below under transcription.

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Proto-Germanic
Hypothetical prehistoric ancestor of all Germanic languages, including English.

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first (linguistics) Used to form the name of the hypothetical ancestor of a family of languages. Proto -Indo-European is the ancestor of the Indo ...

Germanic
The early, undocumented language from which other Germanic languages such as German, English, Dutch and Scandinavian languages developed. (linguistics ...

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