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Originally Posted by greedrex
PROTOPUNK
you must have heard this before , no?
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yes, i heard it for the Electric Eels and Rocket From The Tombs... and probably others...
you can add the proto- prefix to anything, but then probably comes endless discussions about what can be qualified as proto, who was first, etc...
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek πρωτο- (proto-), combination form of πρώτος (protos), “‘first’”), superlative of προ (pro), “‘before’”).
Prefix
proto-- Used to make words in which it has the meaning "first".
- (linguistics) Used to form the name of the hypothetical ancestor of a family of languages.Proto-Indo-European is the ancestor of the Indo-European languages.
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