protoword

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Etymology[edit]

proto- +‎ word

Noun[edit]

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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