Meaning of preform | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An object that has undergone preliminary shaping but is not yet in its final form.
2. The rough, incomplete and unused basic form of a stone tool.
3. A word that is no longer in use, but has been reconstructed from current ones.

Examples

“Trask notes that Bq. gorosti could have had *goloztri as a pre-form, in which case the presence of -r- in the Sardinian forms might be original.”

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