Graphogram

Quick meaning: Graphogram is a noun meaning A written inkling of a name in a writing system incompletely rendering the phonological system of a language.

Meaning

A written inkling of a name in a writing system incompletely rendering the phonological system of a language.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) A wax cylinder on which a message is recorded.
2. (obsolete) some nonsense in graphology, probably several kinds thereof.

Example Sentences

Thus, Manfred Ullmann (after the Sanskritist Adolf Stenzler) wants to amend the Arabic graphograms […] the Indologist Ronald Emmerick has demonstrated that solely on the basis of the Arabic graphograms and the Arabic ‘loan-translation’ of the title, the underlying Sanskrit word can only be Siddhasāra;

nowhere in Sanskrit literature do we find an individual’s name, never mind an astrologer’s name, which could have served even remotely as a base form for the Arabic graphograms. […] In the face of these findings, any attempt at explaining the Arabic graphograms must proceed from the premise of their validity and integrity or, in other words, from the presumed accuracy of their transmitted forms.

Word Forms

• graphograms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cerograph, graphophone, phonograph, chromograph, cerography, melodiograph.

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