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Proto-Finno-Ugric

Proto-Finno-Ugric proper noun: the hypothetical ancestor language or protolanguage of Finnic and Ugric languages. Usually written with the UPA-transcription system.

Proper noun

Proto-Finno-Ugric

  1. (uncountable) The hypothetical ancestor language or protolanguage of Finnic and Ugric languages. Usually written with the UPA-transcription system.

Origin of Proto-Finno-Ugric

From proto- + Finno-Ugric.

Questions about Proto-Finno-Ugric

What does Proto-Finno-Ugric mean?
Proto-Finno-Ugric means the hypothetical ancestor language or protolanguage of Finnic and Ugric languages. Usually written with the UPA-transcription system.
What part of speech is Proto-Finno-Ugric?
Proto-Finno-Ugric is a proper noun.

Words near Proto-Finno-Ugric in the dictionary

  1. proto-epics
  2. Proto-Eskimo
  3. proto-fascist
  4. proto-fascists
  5. Proto-Finnic
  6. Proto-Finno-Ugric
  7. proto-forester
  8. proto-foresters
  9. Proto-Germanic
  10. Proto-Greek
  11. Proto-Hittite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Proto-Finno-Ugric (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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