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Proto-Athabaskan

Proto-Athabaskan proper noun: an undocumented hypothetical language from which all the Athabaskan languages later emerged.

Proper noun

Proto-Athabaskan

  1. An undocumented hypothetical language from which all the Athabaskan languages later emerged.
    Synonyms:
    Proto-Dene

Adjective

Proto-Athabaskan (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the Proto-Athabaskan language or the people who spoke it.

Synonyms of Proto-Athabaskan

Forms of Proto-Athabaskan

alternative formProto-Athapaskan
alternative formProto-Athabascan

Origin of Proto-Athabaskan

From proto- + Athabaskan.

Questions about Proto-Athabaskan

What does Proto-Athabaskan mean?
Proto-Athabaskan means an undocumented hypothetical language from which all the Athabaskan languages later emerged.
What part of speech is Proto-Athabaskan?
Proto-Athabaskan can be a proper noun or an adjective.

Words near Proto-Athabaskan in the dictionary

  1. proto-ancestor
  2. proto-ancestors
  3. Proto-Armenian
  4. Proto-Atayalic
  5. Proto-Athabascan
  6. Proto-Athabaskan
  7. Proto-Athapaskan
  8. Proto-Australoid
  9. Proto-Australoids
  10. Proto-Austric
  11. Proto-Austroasiatic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Proto-Athabaskan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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