English
protomullet
From proto- + mullet.
Proto-Indo-European *pér ‘through’
Proto-Indo-European *pró ‘forwards, before’
Proto-Hellenic *pró
Ancient Greek πρό ‘before’
Ancient Greek πρῶτος ‘first’
English proto-
Ancient Greek μύλλος ‘a kind of fish brought salted from the Black Sea’
Latin mullus ‘red mullet’
Old French mulet ‘mullet (fish)’
Middle English molet
English mullet
Today it means
noun A mulletlike hairstyle which is shorter than a full-fledged mullet or which preceded the popularization of the mullet in the 1980s.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “protomullet”. 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 / protomullet