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Nos·trat·ic

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NOUN:

A hypothetical language proposed as the parent language of Afro-Asiatic, Altaic, Dravidian, Indo-European, Kartvelian, Uralic-Yukaghir, and perhaps other language families.

ETYMOLOGY:
Danish nostratisk, from Latin nostrs, nostrt-, belonging to our country or people, from noster, our, ours; see nes-² in Indo-European roots

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