Proto-Sabellic

English

Etymology

From proto- +‎ Sabellic.

Proper noun

Proto-Sabellic

  1. hypothetical reconstructed ancestor language of the Osco-Umbrian language family, alternatively called the Sabellic languages
    • 2017 October 23, Benjamin W. Fortson, edited by Jared Klein, Brian Joseph, and Matthias Fritz, The dialectology of Italic‎[1], De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 850:
      In some cases, Clackson and others have attempted to cast doubt on the validity of certain traditionally proposed Proto-Sabellic changes by claiming they happened later and diffused but not all the way to South Picene.
    • 2020 February 1, Blanca María Prósper, “The Sabellic accusative plural endings and the outcome of the Indo-European sibilants in Italic”, in Journal of Language Relationship‎[2], volume 18, numbers 1-2, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 41–79:
      As we are going to see, both the mechanic reconstruction of a Proto-Sabellic stage and the tacit assumption that secondary, contact-induced phenomena -which changed the appearance of dialects even after thay have acquired a personality as individual entities- are scarce or dubious, may have given us a strongly biased vision of the relative chronology of Italic sound shifts
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