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cuneify

cuneify verb: to transliterate a text into the cuneiform script.

Verb

cuneify (third-person singular simple present cuneifies, present participle cuneifying, simple past and past participle cuneified)

  1. (transitive) To transliterate a text into the cuneiform script.
  2. (intransitive) To write in cuneiform.

Forms of cuneify

third-person singular presentcuneifies
present participlecuneifying
past participlecuneified
pastcuneified

Origin of cuneify

From the stem of cuneiform + -ify.

Questions about cuneify

What does cuneify mean?
Cuneify means to transliterate a text into the cuneiform script.
What part of speech is cuneify?
Cuneify is a verb.
What is the past tense of cuneify?
The past tense of cuneify is cuneified.

Words near cuneify in the dictionary

  1. cuneiformists
  2. cuneiformity
  3. cuneiformlike
  4. cuneiformly
  5. cuneiforms
  6. cuneify
  7. cuneifying
  8. Cunene
  9. Cuneo
  10. cuneo-
  11. cuneocerebellar

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