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proto-story

proto-story noun: an underlying or root story upon which many later stories are variants.

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

Forms of proto-story

pluralproto-stories

Origin of proto-story

From proto- + story.

Questions about proto-story

What does proto-story mean?
Proto-story means an underlying or root story upon which many later stories are variants.
What part of speech is proto-story?
Proto-story is a noun.
What is the plural of proto-story?
The plural of proto-story is proto-stories.

Words near proto-story in the dictionary

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

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