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
When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it
is unspoken you reign over it.