- In linguistics, a
monosyllable is a word or
utterance of only one syllable. It is most
commonly studied in the
fields of
phonology and morphology. The...
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longest English word of one syllable, i.e.
monosyllables with the most letters. A list of 9,123
English monosyllables published in 1957
includes three ten-letter...
- from this process. In English, a word is
often clipped down to a
closed monosyllable and then
suffixed with -y/-ie (phonologically /-i/).
Sometimes the suffix...
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simple monosyllable complex monosyllable complex monosyllable →
sesquisyllable complex monosyllable →
simple monosyllable simple monosyllable simple monosyllable...
- word that
consists of a
single syllable (like
English dog) is
called a
monosyllable (and is said to be monosyllabic).
Similar terms include disyllable (and...
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described his
death thus: "Steve's
final words,
hours earlier, were
monosyllables,
repeated three times.
Before embarking, he'd
looked at his
sister Patty...
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nasal vowel lost its
nasalization in the
Romance languages except in
monosyllables,
where it
became /n/ e.g.
Spanish quien < quem "whom",
French rien "anything"...
- of imitation. 'Mimeme'
comes from a
suitable Gr**** root, but I want a
monosyllable that
sounds a bit like 'gene'. I hope my
classicist friends will forgive...
- name is a
practical necessity. It has been
found by
experience that the
monosyllable del is so
short and easy to
pronounce that even in
complicated formulae...
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reflected as
Western *r and
Eastern *x. The
typical verb root in Daju is a
monosyllable of the form (C)VC(C). The
perfective takes a
prefixed k-; the imperfective...
