Formation
Morphological reading: dis- + avowal, with “vow” visibly trapped inside.
The formation looks like both a withdrawal of speech and an operation performed upon vowels/vows. Its ambiguity exemplifies the corpus preference for a word that can support several false etymologies at once.
Source
Earliest indexed occurrence: Disemvowal (16 Bits) · 2025-10-28.
“CONGENITAL EXHIBITION EXPOSITION ARRANGED TO EXHAUSTION 6. DISEMVOWAL The guide is corrupted. Help is not coming. Heated consonants…”
Why it matters
The point is not merely novelty. The collision arrives before the definition does. See The JQD word-machine and the lexicon entry.