Associations to the word «Proto»
Noun
- Celtic
- Phoneme
- Iranian
- European
- Phonology
- Consonant
- Vowel
- Turkic
- Reflex
- Tai
- Oceanic
- Reconstruction
- Pie
- Linguist
- Mayan
- Lexicon
- Col
- Suffix
- Punk
- Pronoun
- Tyrosine
- Tibetan
- Sanskrit
- Vocabulary
- Malay
- Slav
- Verb
- Noun
- Linguistics
- Syllable
- Rel
- Steppe
- Tcp
- Morphology
- Borrowing
- Ural
- Prefix
- Homeland
- Grimm
- Bce
- Dialect
- Italic
- Celt
- Ancestor
- Millennium
- Industrialization
- Hypothesis
- Feminist
- Prehistory
- Derivation
- Kinase
- Anatolia
- Rune
- Tense
- Language
- Plural
- Linguistic
- Mongol
- Subgroup
Adjective
Wiktionary
PROTO, adjective. Prototypical; preceding the proper beginning of something
Dictionary definition
PROTO, adjective. Indicating the first or earliest or original; "`proto' is a combining form in a word like `protolanguage' that refers to the hypothetical ancestor of another language or group of languages".
Wise words
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe.
Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with
things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.