aphesis 的定义
Historical Linguistics.
- the disappearance or loss of an unstressed initial vowel or syllable, as in the formation of the word slant from aslant.
更多aphesis例句
- This English tendency to aphesis is satirised in a French song of the 14th century, intentionally written in bad French.
- Aphesis is the loss of the unaccented first syllable, as in 'baccy and 'later.
- But confusion with the article is not necessary in order to bring about aphesis.