foreform

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) An early or previous form; protoform
 * 2) * 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, [...]
 * 1) * 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).

Verb

 * 1)  To form beforehand or in advance; prepare