prehistory
English
noun
Definitions
- (properly) History before written records, inclusive of both
- (jocular) Any past time (even recent) treated as such a distant, unknowable era.
- (often) The history leading up to some event, condition, etc.
Etymology
Prefix from English history.
Origin
English
history
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- allohistory English
- anthrohistory English
- antihistory English
- astrohistory English
- biohistory English
- counterhistory English
- ecohistory English
- ethnohistory English
- geohistory English
- historiaster English
- historicide English
- historied English
- historify English
- historiology English
- historize English
- history English
- historyless English
- historylike English
- historywise English
- macrohistory English
- metahistory English
- microhistory English
- minihistory English
- mis-history English
- mythohistory English
- nonhistory English
- palaeohistory English
- paleohistory English
- posthistory English
- protohistory English
- pseudohistory English
- psychohistory English
- sociohistory English
- subhistory English
- unhistory English
- xenohistory English
- historia Latin
- historie Middle English
- hisitōlia Tongan (Tonga Islands)
- history
- historify
- historize
- historied
- unhistory
- subhistory
- geohistory
- nonhistory
- ecohistory
- biohistory
- allohistory
- historywise
- historyless
- metahistory
- historylike
- xenohistory
- antihistory
- minihistory
- mis-history
- historicide
- posthistory
- protohistory
- astrohistory
- paleohistory
- mythohistory
- historiology
- ethnohistory
- sociohistory
- macrohistory
- microhistory
- historiaster
- pseudohistory
- palaeohistory
- psychohistory
- anthrohistory
- counterhistory