English

Proto-Japonic

From proto- + Japonic; compare Proto-Indo-European, etc.

Proto-Indo-European *pér ‘through’

Proto-Indo-European *pró ‘forwards, before’

Proto-Hellenic *pró

Ancient Greek πρό ‘before’

Ancient Greek πρῶτος ‘first’

Latin Iapō̆nia ‘Japan’

New Latin iapō̆nicus

Today it means

name The hypothetical ancestral language of both modern Japanese and the Ryukyuan languages.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Japonic