preform

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English form English preform From pre- + form.

1. An object that has undergone preliminary shaping but is not yet in its final form.
2. The rough, incomplete and unused basic form of a stone tool.
3. 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.”

verb

1. Misspelling of perform.