Sentence examples for unattested from inspiring English sources

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unattested

adjective

Not supported by attestation; lacking supporting evidence in the form of assurance from an authority.

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3An asterisk indicates that a preceding word is unattested but has been deduced from attested derivatives.

(An asterisk indicates that the following sound or word is unattested and has been reconstructed as a hypothetical linguistic form).

He then rearranges the triads and posits the existence of unattested missing texts until he produces a scheme that conforms to this assumption.

(An asterisk indicates an unattested, reconstructed form).

Many others represent unattested combinations of ancient roots and affixes; others enter Demotic via Katharevusa: musío 'museum,' stikhío 'element' (but inherited stikhyó 'ghost'), ekteló 'I execute.' In addition, there are more than 2,000 words in common use drawn from Italian and Turkish (accounting for about a third each), and from Latin, French, and, increasingly, English.

(An asterisk denotes a hypothetical, unattested, reconstructed form or word).

Such preoccupation with the vengeful dead was illuminated by the publication in 1993 of a remarkable mid-5th-century law from Selinus in western Sicily, which mentions the Eumenides and gives Zeus the obviously related but hitherto unattested cult title Zeus Eumenes.

Development of Proto-Slavic nasal vowels compared with Baltic Lithuanian Proto-Slavic Polish Russian Bulgarian 'five' penki *pętǐ pięć p'at' pet 'hand, arm' ranka *rǫka ręka ruka rŭka An asterisk indicates an unattested, reconstructed form.

That interpretation requires the assumption of an unattested early 5th-century reform transferring capital appeals to the people.

Somewhat fewer than half of the languages have developed tonal contrasts from original syllable final glottalization; e.g., Proto-Athabaskan *teɬšɬ 'mat' > Tsek'ene tèl, where indicates an unattested form, ɬ represents glottalization, and is a low-tone vowel.

The reverse shift, in which E forms develop O meanings, appears to be unattested (cf. Horn 2012).

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