- 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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spelling of the
common Southern Italian familiar term of address, ****pà, the
apocoped oxytone form of the word ****pari
found in
Southern Italian dialects and...
- to
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...
- */e/ > ne */neː/. The
suspected long /eː/ also
seems to be
resistant to
apocope and ****imilation
which are
undergone by the
suspected short /e/. Some frequent...
- [ˈχuχːiˌχæʃtli]. Most
Swiss German dialects have gone
through the
Alemannic n-
apocope,
which has led to the loss of
final -n in
words such as
Garte 'garden'...
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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...
- 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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Macanese patois (endonym: Patuá) is a Portuguese-based
creole language with a
substrate from Cantonese,
Malay and Sinhala,
which was
originally spoken...
