preform

An object that has undergone preliminary shaping but is not yet in its final form.

The rough, incomplete and unused basic form of a stone tool.

A word that is no longer in use, but has been reconstructed from current ones.

Trask notes that Bq. gorosti could have had *goloztri as a pre-form, in which case the presence of -r- in the Sardinian forms might be original.

To shape something before some other operation.

Misspelling of perform.