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
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at
least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are
nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to
build something with them; they do not win their true
meaning until one knows how to apply them.