preform
verbEtymology From pre- + form.
1
To shape something before some other operation.
preform
nounEtymology From pre- + form.
1
An object that has undergone preliminary shaping but is not yet in its final form.
2
Archaeology, History, Human sciences, Sciences The rough, incomplete and unused basic form of a stone tool.
3
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A word that is no longer in use, but has been reconstructed from current ones.
- 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.2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 130: