vowellessness
vowellessness noun: the state of being without vowels, condition of being vowelless.
Noun
vowellessness (uncountable)
- The state of being without vowels, condition of being vowelless.
- ...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 211
- The 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 92
Examples of vowellessness in a sentence
- ...sound is confined in their point of articulation, upon their vowellessness.2001, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Ibn Masʻūd, Joyce Åkesson, Arabic Morphology and Phonology, page 224:
- Vowellessness 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...
Origin of vowellessness
From vowelless + -ness.
Questions about vowellessness
- What does vowellessness mean?
- Vowellessness means the state of being without vowels, condition of being vowelless.
- How do you use vowellessness in a sentence?
- ...sound is confined in their point of articulation, upon their vowellessness.
- What part of speech is vowellessness?
- Vowellessness is a noun.
Words near vowellessness in the dictionary
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