transliterally
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a way that exhibits simple transliteration; in a transliteral (transliterating) way; (that is,) being (or having been) transliterated.
Example Sentences
- "An ironic utterance may be successful at the locutionary level if it is properly understood transliterally, but fails at the perlocutionary level if the conversational reaction does not respect the 'literal complicity' of the ironic game."
- "“Taneic ," "Sabaneeff" and others preferred to be spelled abroad this way, rather than transliterally Tanyeyev or Sabanyeyev."
- "Likewise, ποιητικῆς^([sic]) [transliterally poetikes] is not an untranslatable term."
Etymology
From transliteral + -ly.