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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 spellable English unspellable From un- + spellable.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Difficult or impossible to spell.
Their children, with unpronounceable, unspellable names, came to school in tattered clothes, the boys in drab vests and the girls in more colorful ones.
1992, Hayden Carruth, Suicides and Jazzers:His masters, the Houyhnhnms of the unspellable and unsayable name, were more than performing horses or uncultured squires.
1928, Shaun Leslie, The Skull of Swift: An Extempore Exhumation: