prehistory

English

Etymology

pre- +‎ history.

Noun

prehistory (countable and uncountable; plural prehistories)

1. The history of human culture prior to written records.

Translations

history of human culture prior to written records

• Catalan: prehistòria (ca) f
• Czech: pravěk (cs) m
• Dutch: prehistorie (nl) f
• Esperanto: prahistorio (eo)
• Finnish: esihistoria (fi)
• French: préhistoire (fr) f
• German: Vorgeschichte (de) f, Urgeschichte (de) f
• Italian: preistoria (it) f
• Japanese: 先史時代 (ja) (senshi jidai)

• Jèrriais: préhistouaithe f
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: pêşdîrok (kmr) f

• Norwegian Bokmål: forhistorie (nb) m and f
• Norwegian Nynorsk: forhistorie (nn) f
• Portuguese: pré-história (pt) f
• Serbo-Croatian: prethistorija (sh), prahistorija (sh), pretpovijest (sh), prapovijest (sh), prehistorija (sh)
• Spanish: prehistoria (es) f
• Volapük: rujenav (vo)

Related terms

• prehistoric

See also

• archaeology