protowriting

noun

Etymology

From proto- + writing.

  1. derived from wrītan — “to scratch, carve, write
  2. inherited from wrītende
  3. inherited from writinge
  4. prefixed as protowriting — “proto + writing

Definitions

  1. Any of the early systems of symbols that developed into writing.

  2. Meaningless writing-like patterns drawn by children who cannot yet write.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for protowriting. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA