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Meaning of APHESIS

Pronunciation:  'afisis

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire'
 
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 See Also: deletion, omission

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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.
 
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