protohuman
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to the first humans or the beginning of humankind.
noun
One of the earliest humans preceding Homo sapiens.
Example Sentences
- "We each had limited knowledge of forager and protohuman warfare based on either ethnographic accounts or archaeological information, which forced both of us ..."
- "Among the protohuman institutions that didn't exist, materially speaking, was the behavior pattern of storytelling."
- "The research included an examination of the original fossils and a comparison with skeletons of modern humans and protohumans and also chimpanzees."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *próder. Ancient Greek πρό (pró) Ancient Greek -ᾰτος (-ătos) Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos) Ancient Greek πρωτο- (prōto-)lbor. English proto- Latin hūmānusbor. Old French umain Middle French humainbor. Middle English humayne English human English protohuman From proto- + human.