protohistoric en · ADJ
Etymology
From proto- + historic.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of or pertaining to protohistory.
"The Arab al-Arabá" (or al-Aribah, or al-Urubíyat) are the autochthones, pre-historic, proto-historic and extinct tribes.
1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 112 footnote: