Etymograph

English

abugida

Abugida comes from Ge'ez አቡጊዳ.

  1. Ge'ezmodernአቡጊዳʾäbugida
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1961abugida

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Ge'ezmodernአቡጊዳʾäbugida
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1961abugida

Earliest quotation: 1961, Haile Sellassie I University, University College Review - Volume 1: “Words are entered under the Abugida system.”

The story

First use appears c. 1961.

Every English word from Ge'ez አቡጊዳ

Today it means

noun A kind of syllabary (syllabic alphabet) in which a symbol or glyph representing a syllable contains parts representing a vowel and a consonant, such that symbols for syllables not including the default vowel are generated by adding a common notation to indicate the vowel that it does include.

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Etymograph / Ge'ez አቡጊዳ / abugida

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