- In phonology,
apocope (/əˈpɒkəpi/) is the loss (elision) of a word-final vowel. In a
broader sense, the term can
refer to the loss of any
final sound...
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eliminate final consonants in
Vulgar Latin,
either by
dropping them (
apocope) or
adding a
vowel after them (epenthesis). Many
final consonants were...
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Rhine Franconian dialects,
Palatine German has e-
apocope (i.e. loss of
earlier final -e), n-
apocope (i.e. loss of
earlier final n in the
suffix -en) and...
- an
original heavy syllable, the
final vowel is
often reduced or lost (
apocope). The
former is
common in
southern Norrland dialects, as in the infinitive...
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Spanish adjectives are
similar to
those in most
other Indo-European languages. They are
generally postpositive, and they
agree in both
gender and number...
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sometimes jokingly pronounced "haplogy". Elision, aphaeresis, syncope, and
apocope: All are
losses of sounds.
Elision is the loss of
unstressed sounds, aphaeresis...
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ending there at all. This was
caused by a
sound change called high
vowel apocope,
which occurred in the
prehistory of Old English.
Short -i and -u disappeared...
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Macanese patois (endonym: Patuá) is a Portuguese-based
creole language with a
substrate from Cantonese,
Malay and Sinhala,
which was
originally spoken...
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mainly consists of the
following types:
Final clipping,
which may
include apocope Initial clipping,
which may
include apheresis, or
procope Medial clipping...
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sixth century CE. It is
marked by the loss of
Brittonic final syllables (
apocope) and the
eventual loss of
compositional vowels in
compound words (syncope)...
