Meaning of abisselfa | Babel Free

Definitions

The letter A when it stands alone within a word, not forming part of a diphthong, etc.

US, colloquial, obsolete

Examples

“It dawned upon me that abisselfa was an English translation of a-per-se-a, a-by-itself-a. So also e-by-itself-e became ebisselfe. Similarly ibisselfi, obisselfo, ubisselfu. This nomenclature was confined to the vowels as being the only letters that could stand by themselves.”

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