| 单词 | vowel-point |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvowel-point vowel-point n. a sign used to indicate a vowel in certain alphabets (esp. the Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic); also as v., to supply with points in place of vowels. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > represent by written character [verb (transitive)] > vowel-point vowel1681 vowel-point1765 vocalize1841 vowelize1883 society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > written character not a letter > vowel-point prick1530 tittle1538 vowel-point1765 1765 Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 419 Nor is it to be wondered at, that, before the invention of the vowel-points, the quiescent letters should have sometimes been suppressed. 1843 Proc. Philol. Soc. (1844) 1 138 In fact, with a different notation, nearly all the labour of the vowel-points might be saved. 1845 R. Browning Let. in Lett. R. Browning & E. B. Barrett (1899) I. 16 I could not well vowel-point my commonplace letters and syllables with a masoretic other sound and sense. 1893 W. Forbes-Mitchell Reminisc. Great Mutiny 275 The Oordoo in the circular is printed in the Persian character without the vowel-points. < as lemmas |
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