protolinguistics
/ˌprəʊtə(ʊ)lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/noun
The branch of linguistics that deals with the development of language from non-verbal communication; the study of proto-languages. Also (occasionally): an early form of linguistics.
Origin
1970s; earliest use found in Language. From proto- + linguistic, after protolinguistic.
- white slipper
- white slipper shell
- whitesmith
- whitesmithery
- whitesmithing
- white smoker
- white soap
- white softening
- white something out
- Hokkien
- hokku
- hokonui
- hokum
- Hokusai, Katsushika
- Holarctic
- Holbein, Hans
- hold
- holdable
- hold a brief for
- holdall
- hold all the aces
- hold all the cards
- hold back
- holdback
- hold button