preform
Word-form referencesperform
Noun
An object that has undergone preliminary shaping but is not yet in its final form.
The rough, incomplete and unused basic form of a stone tool.
A word that is no longer in use, but has been reconstructed from current ones.
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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.
Verb
To shape something before some other operation.
Verb
form into a shape resembling the final, desired one
form or shape beforehand or determine the shape of beforehand
Word forms
preformspre-formpreformspreformingpreformedpreformed