Historical Ling.
a body of procedures and criteria used by linguists to determine whether and how two or more languages are related and to reconstruct forms of their hypothetical parent language.
Historical Ling.
a body of procedures and criteria used by linguists to determine whether and how two or more languages are related and to reconstruct forms of their hypothetical parent language.
Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012