preform

noun

1. An object that has undergone preliminary shaping but is not yet in its final form.
2. The rough, incomplete and unused basic form of a stone tool.
3. 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.”

verb

1. To shape something before some other operation.
2. (alt-of, misspelling)Misspelling of perform.