| \OOR-shprah-khuh; German OOR-shprah-khuh\ | noun
1. a hypothetically reconstructed parent language, as Proto-Germanic, the ancestor of the Germanic languages. | | Quotes | He might have been speaking Ursprache, for all that I understood. I was firmly in the present, watching the starlings cavort over and under the telegraph wires and the wind shimmer the young leaves into a muzzy Monet.
-- Will Self, My Idea of Fun, 1993 | | Origin | | Ursprache came to Enlgish in the 20th century from the German prefix ur- meaning "earliest, original" and Sprache meaning "speech." | |
