English Explanatory Dictionary

protoword

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

An early wordlike utterance produced by an infant before it has acquired a true language.
A wordlike utterance produced by early people who had yet to develop full language capability; a word from a proto-language.

Word forms

protoword protowords

Etymology

From proto- + word.

Related words

proto-language ur-word

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