Protoword
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Protoword is a noun meaning (linguistics) An early wordlike utterance produced by an infant before it has acquired a true language.
Meaning
(linguistics) An early wordlike utterance produced by an infant before it has acquired a true language.
More Meanings
- (linguistics) A wordlike utterance produced by early people who had yet to develop full language capability; a word from a proto-language.
Word Forms
- protowords
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ur-word, proto-language, prelanguage, primitive, proword, protoform.
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