preform

To shape or form beforehand.

To determine the shape or form of beforehand.

An object that has been subjected to preliminary, usually incomplete shaping or molding before undergoing complete or final processing.

A reconstructed ancestral word or form.

To form beforehand; execute or create previously.

In biology, to determine beforehand the shape or form of; furnish the mold or model of (something afterward to take shape): as, bone preformed in cartilage; the fetal skeleton preforms that of the adult.

To form beforehand, or for special ends.

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.