Aphesis
Translation- Aphesis
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phonetics , aphaeresis (pron-en|əˈfɪərɨsɪs, from Greek "apo" away, "hairein" to take), also known as aphesis (pron-en|ˈæfɨsɪs, from Greek "apo" away, "hienai" to send), is the loss of one or more sounds from the beginning of a word; especially, the loss of an unstressed vowel.Aphaeresis or aphesis as a historical sound change
In historical phonetics, the term "aphaeresis" is often but not always limited to the loss of an unstressed vowel. (The Oxford English Dictionary gives this particular kind of aphaeresis the name aphesis IPA|/ˈæfɨsɪs/.)
The loss of any sound
*English " [k] nife" pronounced IPA|/ˈnaɪf/
*Swedish " [st] rand" > Finnish "ranta" "beach"The loss of an unstressed vowel
*Greek "episkopos" > Vulgar
Latin " [e] biscopu" > English "bishop"
*English " [a] cute" > "cute"
*English " [E] gyptian" > "Gyptian" > "Gypsy"
*English " [a] mend" > "mend"
*English " [e] scape" + "goat" > "scapegoat"
*Old French "evaniss-" > English "vanish"
*English "esquire" > "squire"Aphaeresis as a poetic device
*English "it is" > poetic "'tis"
Aphaeresis in informal speech
*Spanish "está" > Rioplatense Spanish " [e] tá" > "ta" ("is")
ee also
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Syncope
*Apocope
*Elision
*List of phonetics topics References
*Crowley, Terry. (1997) "An Introduction to Historical Linguistics." 3rd edition. Oxford University Press.
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Aphesis — Aph e*sis, n. [Gr. ? a letting go; ? + ? to let go.] The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire. New Eng. Dict. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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