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
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more
value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an
idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words,
but a great deal in a few.