aphesis / ˈæf ə sɪs /

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aphesis 的定义

n. 名词 noun

Historical Linguistics.

  1. 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

  1. This English tendency to aphesis is satirised in a French song of the 14th century, intentionally written in bad French.
  2. Aphesis is the loss of the unaccented first syllable, as in 'baccy and 'later.
  3. But confusion with the article is not necessary in order to bring about aphesis.