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Protoword

Noun

Definitions

1.NounAn early wordlike utterance produced by an infant before it has acquired a true language.
2.NounA wordlike utterance produced by early people who had yet to develop full language capability; a word from a proto-language.

Synonyms

ur-wordproto-languageprelanguageprimitiveprowordprotoformprotosyllableprespeechprotospeechpreformativeprotoconversationprevocalization
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