English
prodrop
pro(noun) + drop, with clipping.
Proto-Germanic *drupô ‘drop’
Proto-West Germanic *dropō ‘drop’
Old English dropa ‘a drop’
Middle English droppe ‘small quantity of liquid’
English drop
Today it means
adj In which certain classes of pronoun may be omitted when they can be inferred.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “prodrop”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / prodrop