prehistory

Etymology
From, first attested in the Foreign Quarterly Review in 1836, after the model of , from French.

Noun

 * 1) The time before written records in any area of the world; the events and conditions of those times.
 * 2) The study of those times.
 * 3)  Any past time (even recent) treated as such a distant, unknowable era.
 * 4)  The history leading up to some event, condition, etc.
 * 1)  The history leading up to some event, condition, etc.
 * 1)  The history leading up to some event, condition, etc.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: عَصْر مَا قَبْلَ التَّارِيخ
 * Belarusian: прагісто́рыя
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: သမိုင်းမတိုင်မီခေတ်
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 史前時代
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: esihistoriallinen aika
 * French:
 * Georgian: პრეისტორია, წინარეისტორია
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew: פרהיסטוריה
 * Hindi: प्रागितिहास
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: праисторија
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: доистори́ческий пери́од,, ,
 * Slovak: pravek
 * Slovene:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: преісто́рія, доісто́рія
 * Vietnamese: (先史)


 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: prehistoria
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: forhistorie
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: პრეისტორია, წინარეისტორია
 * German: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 先史学
 * Korean: 선사학(先史學)
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Macedonian: праисторија
 * Malay:
 * Jawi:
 * Norman: préhistouaithe
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: forhistorie
 * Nynorsk: forhistorie
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:, , , , prehistorija
 * Slovak: pravek
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: передісто́рія
 * Vietnamese: thời tiền sử
 * Volapük: rujenav


 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: перадгісто́рыя
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 發展背景
 * Danish: forhistorie
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: forhistorie
 * Nynorsk: forhistorie
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian: передісто́рія