Definition of Excrescent letter. Meaning of Excrescent letter. Synonyms of Excrescent letter

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Definition of Excrescent letter

Excrescent letter
Excrescent Ex*cres"cent, a. [L. excresens, -entis, p. pr. of excrescere to grow out; ex out + crescere to grow. See Crescent.] Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity. Expunge the whole, or lip the excrescent parts. --Pope. Excrescent letter (Philol.), a letter which has been added to a root; as, the d in alder (AS. alr) is an excrescent letter.

Meaning of Excrescent letter from wikipedia

- provided, quod computentur dies ille excrescens et dies proxime præcedens pro unico dii, (so as in com****tion that day excrescent is not accounted.)...
- letter h are normally stressed: yapawahAalò to dry out, pahAlò to drift away, yekúhÚ rak just a little Unstressed syllables often occur as excrescent...
- dies proxime præcedens pro unico dii, (so as in com****tion that day excrescent is not accounted.) Poole 1921, p. 13. Pickering 1765, CAP. XXIII (p. 186)...
- referential suffix i 'to' (forced morphophonemically to change to e) with excrescent consonant n, and suffix ñaihon 'a short amount of time'. Thus Masanganenñaihon...
- ánthos, “flower” or ἄνθρωπος, "man, human") origin with an unetymological excrescent -h- but this remains dubious. April Latin aprilis probably from Etruscan...