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Meaning of protoword | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

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

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

protowriting protoxid protoxide protoxin protoxylem protoyonogenin

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