protoword (English, noun)
expansion: protoword (plural protowords)
Senses:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An early wordlike utterance produced by an infant before it has acquired a true language.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A wordlike utterance produced by early people who had yet to develop full language capability; a word from a proto-language.
Forms:
form: protowords
tags: plural