pre-subject
Linguistics
adjective
Occurring before a grammatical subject.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Harold Edward Palmer (1877–1949), linguist and teacher of languages.
- wireless telegraphy
- wireless telephone
- wireless telephony
- wireless wave
- wireline
- wireman
- wire mark
- wire micrometer
- wire money
- wire nail
- wire nut
- wirephoto
- wire photograph
- wire pliers
- wire-pull
- wirepuller
- wirepulling
- wire puzzle
- wirer
- wire recorder
- wire recording
- wire report
- wire-rim
- wire rope
- wire saw