protoword

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English

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Etymology

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From proto- +‎ word.

Noun

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protoword (plural protowords)

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

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