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prodelision Prosody.|prəʊdɪˈlɪʒən| [f. L. prōd, older form of prō, pro-1, used before vowels + elision.] Elision of an initial vowel.
1906Academy 17 Mar. 257/1 Creaking Ionic scazons disfigured..by prodelision and synizesis and crasis. 1933Trans. Philol. Soc. 1931–32 32 They would point to the patent phenomena of adaptation or assimilation of the two sounds to one another..and also to the facts of elision, prodelision, and crasis (in the case of vowels), that is, of coalescence. 1968W. S. Allen Vox Graeca iv. 96 Much rarer than elision is the process of ‘prodelision’ in which it is the short initial vowel of the second word that is lost after a final long vowel or diphthong. |