protoword (0 synonym found)

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Definition of protoword:

(n) : (linguistics) An early wordlike utterance produced by an infant before it has acquired a true language.
(n) : (linguistics) A wordlike utterance produced by early people who had yet to develop full language capability; a word from a proto-language.
Definition of protoword:

(n) : (linguistics) An early wordlike utterance produced by an infant before it has acquired a true language.
(n) : (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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