Definitions from Wiktionary (protoword)
▸ noun: (linguistics) An early wordlike utterance produced by an infant before it has acquired a true language.
▸ noun: (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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▸ noun: (linguistics) An early wordlike utterance produced by an infant before it has acquired a true language.
▸ noun: (linguistics) A wordlike utterance produced by early people who had yet to develop full language capability; a word from a proto-language.
Similar:
ur-word,
proto-language,
prelanguage,
primitive,
proword,
protoform,
protosyllable,
prespeech,
protospeech,
preformative,
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