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Word: Aphesis
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 19th century: from Greek, literally ‘letting go’, from apo ‘from’ + hienai ‘let go, send’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈafɪsɪs
Dialects: British English
Definition:
the gradual loss of an unstressed vowel at the beginning of a word (e.g. of e from esquire to form squire).
Short Definition:gradual loss of unstressed vowel at beginning of word
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