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单词 nunnation mark
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nunnation mark
2. Usually in form nunnation. In extended use: the addition of a final n to an inflection in another language, e.g. Middle English. Also (frequently attributive, esp. in nunnation mark): the insertion of a nasal consonant after a vowel.
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1838 E. Guest Hist. Eng. Rhythms II. 111 One of its [sc. the language of Layamon's] most striking peculiarities is its nunnation, if we may be allowed to use a term already familiar to the scholar.
1844 Proc. Philol. Soc. 1 261 Nouns of the n declension often took the nunnation in the nominative in place of the usual vowel-ending.
1866 G. Stephens Old-Northern Runic Monuments I. i. 26 This Northumbrian form..is clearly a separately developt local dialectic ‘nunnation’.
1887 Mod. Lang. Notes 2 9/1 The final n would only be a case of nunnation, so common in this text.
1908 Man 8 79 Nunation is frequent in Malay and Malagasy.
1956 C. J. Sisson New Readings in Shakespeare I. 222 The compositor's copy read blacks for blancks, and he ignored the nunnation mark.
1975 J. Butcher Copy-editing xi. 205 Superscript letters and tildes (nunnation marks) in contractions are normalized to modern usage unless there are good reasons to the contrary.
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