eteo-

Meanings

1. Denoting an ancient or ancestral language (or form of a language), dating from a time before it came into contact with another language; particularly one which had considerable influence, or which later displaced it entirely.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐτεός (eteós, “true, original”), by analogy with Eteocretan, from Ἐτεόκρητες (Eteókrētes, literally “original Cretan”).