preform

plural preforms · alternative pre-form

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

present singular third person preforms · participle present preforming · participle past preformed · past preformed · alternative pre-form

1. To shape something before some other operation.

1. misspellingMisspelling of perform.