Word.ws English Dictionary

proto-stories

proto-stories is the plural of proto-story.

Meaning of proto-story

Noun

proto-story (plural proto-stories)

  1. An underlying or root story upon which many later stories are variants.
    • Just as Greek and Sanskrit reflect a proto-language, so do the Cypria and the Mahābhārata reflect a proto-story.2025 December 12, Tom Hercules Davies, “Horses, Wheels, Languages: Greek, Mesopotamian and Indic Epic on the Eurasian Steppe”, in The Classical Quarterly, volume 75, number 1, page 5

Questions about proto-stories

What is proto-stories the plural of?
Proto-stories is the plural of proto-story.

Words near proto-stories in the dictionary

  1. Proto-Sinitic
  2. Proto-Sino-Tibetan
  3. Proto-Slavic
  4. proto-Somaloid
  5. Proto-South Sulawesi
  6. proto-stories
  7. proto-story
  8. proto-strontium
  9. Proto-Tagalic
  10. Proto-Teutonic
  11. proto-titanium

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: proto-stories (page history and authors); proto-story (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “proto-stories.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/proto-stories. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.