English Explanatory Dictionary

protomyth

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An initial form of a myth that is inferred or known about only from secondary sources; a motif that is not yet accorded the status of myth, but may (it is supposed) become one.

Word forms

protomyth protomyths

Etymology

From proto- + myth.

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