Meanings
- uncountablehuman sciencesThe state of being without vowels, condition of being vowelless.
...sound is confined in their point of articulation, upon their vowellessness.
2001, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Ibn Masʻūd, Joyce Åkesson, Arabic Morphology and Phonology, page 2243 more examples
...the devanagari is an alphabet, with the peculiarity that it omits writing one of the vowels, the commonest one, and has a symbol for vowellessness...
1972, George Leonard Trager., Language and Languages, page 211The other vowels are shown by appendages to the letters, and vowellessness is indicated by ligatures of the consonants involved in the cluster...
1992, Pamela Downing, Susan D. Lima, Michael Noonan., The Linguistics of Literacy: 17th Annual Linguistics Symposium : Papers, page 92Vowellessness of the third radical letter of imperative in verb forms 1, 4, 13, and fourteen is the result of the jussiveness of imperative by lām, […]
2021, Sayyid Muhammad Rida Tabatabaʼi, translated by Mohammed Mehdi Baghi, “Reduplicated Verbs”, in Arabic Morphology Made Simple, London: ICAS Press, →ISBN, footnote 4, page 87
Origin
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