Meanings
present singular third person misvocalises · participle present misvocalising · participle past misvocalised · past misvocalised
- alternativeAlternative form of misvocalize.
he present tense and masdars have been suppoied ony where the spelling of the verb changes significantly (for example, the prsent tense of second form first radical hamz verbs), where a separate vocabulary item is intended, or where the word is commonly misvocalised.
2012, Elisabeth Kendall, Media Arabic, page 42 more examples
In the much-disputed passage, Hab. ii. 7, the commentator is tempted "in lieu of anything better," to think that Huzzab (so in received text and in the English Version) may be misvocalised for hazzab, "the litter, or palanquin," and that this is a term for the lady who is carried in a litter (for which an Arabic analogy is quoted).
1896, The Academy - Volume 50, page 327I take both tolum to come from to-l-, the first in a sense more closely connected with to- than the usual one; cf. tamuda tolu tikil- in Höllen 105, tulum, on the other hand, probably comes from tul- 'to strike (a ball)' in DLT fol. 275-6 (two of the four exs. misvocalised with fatha) : Cf. athg ani tulturdi "The horseman knocked into him" in DLT fol. 354.
1991, Marcel Erdal, Old Turkic Word Formation, page 293
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