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nunnation|nʌˈneɪʃən|
Also nunation.
[ad. mod.L. nunnātiōn-em, f. nūn the Arabic name of the letter n.]
1. The addition of a final n in the declension of Arabic nouns, denoted by doubling the vowel sign.
1776J. Richardson Arab. Gram. 2 The nunnation is seldom sounded, excepting in the pompous or solemn style of reading. Ibid. 12 The final {aralif} adds nothing to the sound when the nunnation is pronounced. 1874Sayce Compar. Philol. v. 187 The natives of Harar..use a postfixed ‘-n’, which seems a relic of a primitive nunnation. 1883Encycl. Brit. XV. 473/1 The on in Madabron apparently represents the Arabic nunation.
2. A similar addition of n in Middle English nouns, etc.
1838Guest Hist. Eng. Rhythms II. 111 One of its [the language of Layamon] most striking peculiarities is its nunnation, if we may be allowed to use a term already familiar to the scholar. 1844Proc. Philol. Soc. I. 261 Nouns of the n declension often took the nunnation in the nominative in place of the usual vowel-ending. 1866G. Stephens Runic Mon. I. 26 This Northumbrian form..is clearly a separately developt local dialectic ‘nunnation’. |