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undotted en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English dotted English undotted From un- + dotted.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Lacking dots
    • Luxenberg then returns to the undotted form (rasm) of the word to determine whether another reading (dotting) of it produces an Arabic or Aramaic word or root that makes more sense. 2006, Harald Motzki, “Alternative Accounts of the Qur’ān's formation”, in Jane Dammen McAuliffe, editor, The Cambridge Companion to the Qur’ān, Cambridge University Press, page 69:
    • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XVIII, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt […] nothing save the limitless expanse of ocean undotted by a solitary sail stretched out before me.