Meanings
noungraphy (plural graphies)
plural graphies
- A particular spelling or written form, in the context of the French language.
Since [ö] could be spelt eu, ue, oe (§§ 11.8, 12.2) these graphies were at times confused, thus peut or poet for puet.
1974, E. Einhorn, Old French: A Concise Handbook, page 131 more example
The scribe of the Oxford M.S. of the Roland on several occasions employs a graphy ol or ul to spell the French developments of nepotem, nepotes; this graphy is not etymological […]
1939, Mildred Katharine Pope, Studies in French Language and Mediaeval Literature, page 221
Origin
- Frenchgraphie
- Englishgraphy
From French graphie.
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