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Definition of aphesis in English: aphesisnoun ˈafɪsɪsˈafəsəs mass nounLinguistics The gradual loss of an unstressed vowel at the beginning of a word (e.g. of e from esquire to form squire). 〔语言学〕词首非重读元音脱落 Example sentencesExamples - Would UK speakers think this a neologism, an example of aphesis and/or a local eccentricity?
- That word was created from it later by losing its first syllable through a process called aphesis and had the same sense.
- In the French language, texters also use aphesis, ‘zic’ for ‘musique’, or abbreviation, ‘poss’ for ‘possible’.
Synonyms leaving out, exclusion, exception, non-inclusion, deletion, erasure, cut, excision, elimination, absence
Derivativesadjective əˈfɛtɪk Linguistics The word scape is defined as an aphetic form of the common word escape, meaning a primitive usage with a missing first vowel or syllable.
adverb əˈfɛtɪk(ə)li Linguistics Since cute derives aphetically, as the OED informs us, from acute, cuteness's etymology strikingly replicates the diminutive logic of the aesthetic it has come to name, since in aphaeresis words lose their initial unstressed syllables to generate shorter versions of themselves: lone derives from alone, til from until. Example sentencesExamples - Finally, some with the name Lease or Lees are descended from Scots with the surname Gillies, where the first part of the name has been lost through aphesis, when a short beginning syllable is dropped through lazy pronunciation, as in squire, derived aphetically from esquire.
- The transmission to Europe though may have been through Arabic ‘naranj’ (Pers. ‘narang’) which was used as ‘a norange’ in English and later hyper-corrected aphetically to ‘an orange’ (the original form survives in the Spanish ‘naranja’).
OriginLate 19th century: from Greek, literally 'letting go', from apo 'from' + hienai 'let go, send'. Definition of aphesis in US English: aphesisnounˈafəsəs Linguistics The loss of an unstressed vowel at the beginning of a word (e.g., of a from around to form round). 〔语言学〕词首非重读元音脱落 Example sentencesExamples - In the French language, texters also use aphesis, ‘zic’ for ‘musique’, or abbreviation, ‘poss’ for ‘possible’.
- Would UK speakers think this a neologism, an example of aphesis and/or a local eccentricity?
- That word was created from it later by losing its first syllable through a process called aphesis and had the same sense.
Synonyms leaving out, exclusion, exception, non-inclusion, deletion, erasure, cut, excision, elimination, absence
OriginLate 19th century: from Greek, literally ‘letting go’, from apo ‘from’ + hienai ‘let go, send’. |