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Thraco-|ˈθreɪkəʊ| also rarely Thrako-, used as comb. form of Thracian n. and a., as in Thraco-Illyrian adj., Thraco-Phrygian adj. and n.
1902Encycl. Brit. XXV. 249/2 Albanian is peculiarly interesting as the only surviving representative of the so-called Thraco-Illyrian group of languages which formed the primitive speech of the peninsula. 1924G. Murray Rise Gk. Epic (ed. 3) ii. 40 A great movement of Thraco-Phrygian tribes with eastern linguistic affinities. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Feb. 116/4 The Thrako-Illyrian stratum which underlies all the races of the Peninsular. 1946Priebsch & Collinson German Lang. (ed. 2) i. 19 He places the prehistoric connexions of the Tokharians with the progenitors of Balts, Slavs, Armenians and Thraco-Phrygians in the steppes of South-East Russia between the Dniepr and the Urals. 1968D. L. Clarke Analytical Archaeol. ix. 391 An older, outer ring of non-Urnfield Indo-European areas—Teutonic and Baltic on one hand and Thraco-Phrygian, Greek, and Hittite on another. 1972W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-Europ. Lang. 172 Thraco-Phrygian is the term used to denote a group of languages whose earliest known homeland was South-East Europe. Three languages are distinguished: Thracian, Phrygian and Armenian. |