foreform

== English == === Alternative forms === fore-form === Etymology === From fore- +‎ form. === Noun === foreform (plural foreforms) An early or previous form; protoform 1916, The Texas Mathematics Teachers' Bulletin - Volumes 1-5: 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 gives to us, whether as children or as men, [...] 1982, Georg Morgenstierne, Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin, Monumentum Georg Morgenstierne - Volume 2: The most probable foreform must have been the Old Ir. Acc.Sg.f., that is *ayam (cf. Av. imí|m, aeümi). ==== Related terms ==== urform === Verb === foreform (third-person singular simple present foreforms, present participle foreforming, simple past and past participle foreformed) (transitive) To form beforehand or in advance; prepare