attestation

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈæ.tɛs.teɪ.ʃən/ SAMPA: /"{.tEs.teI.S@n/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

Wikipedia attestation (plural attestations)

1. Something which bears witness, confirms or authenticates
2. Such a confirmation or authentication
3. The process of providing an independent opinion on published financial and other business information of a business, public agency, or other organization performed by accountants or auditors.
4. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (linguistics) (of a language or word) An appearance in records.

   The poem called ‘Beowulf,’ preserved on the Nowell Codex, is one attestation of Old English, which can thus be called an ‘attested language’; Proto-Indo-European, a reconstructed language, has no such attestations.

Translations

something which bears witness, confirms or authenticates

Bulgarian: потвърждение (bg) Finnish: todiste (fi) Italian: attestazione (it)

Polish: świadectwo n., zaświadczenie n. Romanian: atestare (ro) f., adeverire (ro) f., confirmare (ro) f. Spanish: atestación (es) f.

such a confirmation or authentication

Bulgarian: потвърждение (bg), заверка (bg) Finnish: todistus (fi) Polish: zaświadczenie n.

Romanian: autentificare (ro), atestare (ro) Spanish: atestación (es) f.

providing an independent opinion, on published information of an organization, by accountants or auditors

Bulgarian: атестация (bg)

Finnish: lausunto (fi)

linguistics: appearance in records

Danish: belæg (da) n. Finnish: attestaatio (fi), esiintyminen (fi) French: attestation (fr) f. German: Beleg (de) m.

Icelandic: heimildardæmi (is) n. Norwegian: belegg (no) n. Swedish: belägg (sv) n.