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What does unattested mean?

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  1. Not supported by attestation; lacking supporting evidence in the form of assurance from an authority.
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To be a man's name it would have to be a contraction of Junianus, of a sort of contraction which is otherwise unattested.
The diversification of the parent language into the attested branches of daughter languages is historically unattested.
Note that those like Mack, who can be awarded respect for their hypotheses of documents otherwise unattested, are not at an advantage over our thesis.
On the other hand, we've learned how to reconstruct unattested proto-languages from their attested descendants and how to work out the family tree of related languages.
Yet not one of the names in this list of nationsis historically unattested, not even that of the unlikely-sounding Gepids.
This bespeaks a congruence that belies the alleged dichotomy, which Gerdmar again finds unattested in specific underlying data.

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