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Allomorph vs Proto - What's the difference?

allomorph | proto |

As nouns the difference between allomorph and proto

is that allomorph is (chemistry) any of the different crystalline forms of a substance while proto is proton.

allomorph

English

(wikipedia allomorph)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (chemistry) Any of the different crystalline forms of a substance.
  • (linguistics) Any of the different phonological representations of a morpheme.

    • Synonyms

    * (crystalline form) paramorph

    Derived terms

    * allomorphic * allomorphism

    proto

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Prototypical; preceding the proper beginning of something
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