A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology
n. 1. (also reconstructed form 
unattested form) A hypothetical form which is nowhere attested but which is posited, on the basis of some evidence, as having existed in some earlier or ancestral form of a language.
Such a form is conventionally marked with an asterisk. For example, Spanish aguijada ‘goad’ is derived from a reconstructed Latin *AQUILEĀTA, and English book is derived from a reconstructed Proto-Germanic *bōkō ‘beech’. 2. The process of constructing such forms.
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