foreform

An early or previous form; protoform

Noun

  1. An early or previous form; protoform
    • Mathematics in its foreform, as arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and the applications of the analytic method, as well as mathematics applied to matter and force or statics and dynamics, furnishes the peculiar study that...
    • The most probable foreform must have been the Old Ir. Acc.Sg.f., that is *ayam (cf. Av. imí|m, aeümi). - 1982, Georg Morgenstierne, Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin, Monumentum Georg Morgenstierne - Volume 2
    • The unconscious is full of artful subterfuge; it shapes our unplanned utterances with unforeseen forethoughts – or foreforms, if one permits such things, for the mind is a repository of hidden and ready formations, a...

Origin

From fore- + form.

Forms

foreforms fore-form

Related

urform

Verb

  1. To form beforehand or in advance; prepare

Forms

foreforms foreforming foreformed fore-form