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Proto-Sinitic

Proto-Sinitic is the alternative form of Old Chinese.

Meaning of Old Chinese

Proper noun

Old Chinese

  1. (retronym) A linguistic ancestor of the Chinese languages, spoken during roughly the first millennium BCE.
    Synonyms:
    Archaic Chinese

Proper noun

Proto-Sinitic

  1. Synonym of Old Chinese.
    Synonyms:
    Old Chinese

Synonyms of Proto-Sinitic

Forms of Proto-Sinitic

comparativemore Proto-Sinitic
superlativemost Proto-Sinitic

Origin of Proto-Sinitic

From proto- + Sinitic.

Questions about Proto-Sinitic

What does Proto-Sinitic mean?
Proto-Sinitic means synonym of Old Chinese.
What is Proto-Sinitic the alternative form of?
Proto-Sinitic is the alternative form of Old Chinese.
What part of speech is Proto-Sinitic?
Proto-Sinitic is a proper noun.

Words near Proto-Sinitic in the dictionary

  1. proto-science fiction
  2. proto-sciences
  3. Proto-Scythian
  4. Proto-Semitic
  5. Proto-Sinaitic
  6. Proto-Sinitic
  7. Proto-Sino-Tibetan
  8. Proto-Slavic
  9. proto-Somaloid
  10. Proto-South Sulawesi
  11. proto-stories

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Proto-Sinitic (page history and authors); Old Chinese (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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