Associations to the word «Proto»
Noun
- Offshoot
- Inuit
- Dispersal
- Articulation
- Correspondence
- Innovation
- Idiom
- Nebula
- Mon
- Arabic
- Archaeologist
- Tamil
- Accent
- Goth
- Descendant
- Neu
- Breakup
- Protocol
- Attic
- Nationalism
- Emergence
- Speaker
- Romance
- Triassic
- Martyr
- Southwestern
- Pre
- Siva
- Funnel
- Kaufman
- Pantheon
- Finnish
- Grouping
- Afro
- Semantics
- Romanticism
- Tablet
- Niger
- Macedonian
- Rift
- Origin
- Continuum
- Precursor
- Herodotus
- Anthropologist
- Saharan
- Odin
- Caucasus
- Deity
- Chronology
- Ge
- Herder
- Mythology
Adjective
Adverb
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
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.