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- noun linguistics A
hypothetical form of aword ,reconstructed fromderived words
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Examples
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With the bots arriving in protoform stages (a la Beast Wars) and no sign of the Arc I’m ready for a new Genesis of the story. james Jones
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - EL reader sees Transformers and loves it 2007
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It’s have a kind of protoform, figure out how you’re going to build it, and use the constraints of the building technology to drive the form itself.
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It’s have a kind of protoform, figure out how you’re going to build it, and use the constraints of the building technology to drive the form itself.
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Look, EB is known for making some fantastic arenas, so there were certain things about the basic protoform that EB had a lot of experience doing and the client was really excited about, so we saw that as a parameter.
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Look, EB is known for making some fantastic arenas, so there were certain things about the basic protoform that EB had a lot of experience doing and the client was really excited about, so we saw that as a parameter.
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It stands to reason that if this root dates to this early time, the original protoform should be *salík-.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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It stands to reason that if this root dates to this early time, the original protoform should be *salík-.
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The Decepticons running around in protoform was damn awesome.
Transformers 2 Clip: Sam and Mikaela Hide From The Decepticons | /Film 2009
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I can only see 5 ... where is the 6th protoform???
Transformers News 2009
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I can only see 5 ... where is the 6th protoform???
Transformers News 2009
bkerr commented on the word protoform
More than meets the eye.
April 30, 2007
mollusque commented on the word protoform
A hypothetical word or part of a word from which known words have been derived; a form reconstructed in a protolanguage.
December 20, 2007
mollusque commented on the word protoform
Eventually he must have fallen asleep, because he woke up from a dream in which people were plunging like missiles into a large body of water and emerging in molten protoforms.
--Richard Powers, 2007, The Echo Maker, p. 233
November 7, 2008