- Look up
aphetic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Aphetic may
refer to: Apheresis, in linguistics, is a
sound change in
which the
initial vowel is dropped...
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beginning of a word. The more
specific term
aphesis (and its
adjective aphetic) is
sometimes used to
refer to the loss of
unstressed vowels. The term...
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historically by
Native Americans, who also used the wood. The word
hickory is an
aphetic form from
earlier pohickory,
short for even
earlier pokahickory, borrowed...
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Early Modern Dutch gurkijn (Modern gurkje),
diminutive of gurk (+ kijn),
aphetic variant of agurk, or
possibly via
Dutch agurken,
plural of agurk, taken...
- that
initial ⟨a⟩ is an
unstressed vowel in some
words and
undergoes an
aphetic process.
Kirsty Rowan states, "The
stress ****ignment of
Meroitic forms...
- A
derivation from
dialect words meaning "prawns" or "many herring". An
aphetic form of Ainu: カモイ・カラ・ブト (kamoi kara buto) "strait made by gods". The ****anese...
- kind of s****fish,'
afterwards confused with "*bernicula" , a
supposed aphetic form of "*hibernacula",
which might be
applied to the barnacle-goose from...
- part of
Seleucid Syria in its
succeeding Seleucid Empire (Syria
being an
aphetic form of ****yria).
Arrapha is
mentioned as such
until ****enistic times...
- (time words,
indefinite article, etc.) may
sometimes have
apocopic or
aphetic forms. For example, abrí unga
janela ("open a window") may
become abrí'nga...
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Middle English.
Space is "an area, extent, expanse,
lapse of time," the
aphetic of Old
French espace dating to 1300.
Espace is from
Latin spatium, "room...
