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
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.