Ursprache

UK:**UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈuːrʃpraːxə/

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(ŏŏr′shprä′кнə; Ger. o̅o̅r′shprä′кнə)



WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
Ur•spra•che  (ŏŏr′shprä′кнə; Ger. o̅o̅r′shprä′кнə),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Linguisticsa hypothetically reconstructed parent language, as Proto-Germanic, the ancestor of the Germanic languages.
  • German, equivalent. to ur- ur-3 + Sprache speech

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
Ursprache German: /ˈuːrʃpraːxə/ n
  1. any hypothetical extinct and unrecorded language reconstructed from groups of related recorded languages. For example, Germanic is an Ursprache reconstructed by comparison of English, Dutch, German, the Scandinavian languages, and Gothic; Indo-European is an Ursprache reconstructed by comparison of the Germanic group, Latin, Sanskrit, etc
Etymology: from ur- primeval, original + Sprache language

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