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pretone Phonology.|ˈpriːtəʊn|
[f. pre- B. + tone.]
The syllable or vowel preceding the stressed or accented syllable. So pretonic |priːˈtɒnɪk| a., coming immediately before the stressed or tonic syllable; also absol. as n., = pretone.
1864Webster, Pretonic, before a tone; as, a pretonic sound or note. 1874Davidson Hebr. Gram. (1892) 46, a in the pretone, or a in the tone, or a in both places. 1884C. H. Toy in Amer. Jrnl. Philol. Dec. 499 The pretonic vowel is either heavy or lightest, that is, sh⊇wā... The number of occurrences of sh⊇wā in pretone is considerable. 1895W. M. Lindsay Short Lat. Gram. 29 The new law of accentuation..brought with it the possibility of a new variety, namely, suppression of the syllable preceding the accent, Pretonic syncope. 1953K. H. Jackson Lang. & Hist. Early Brit. ii. 634 There is also..an h- prefixed to vowels; but in Brittonic there was not the same extension of this to pretonics not originally ending in -s in British that there was in Pr.I. 1973Archivum Linguisticum IV. 24 This kind of system may be dealt with in the same way as the different pretonics of the individual tones.
Hence preˈtonically adv., as regards a pretone.
1953K. H. Jackson Lang. & Hist. Early Brit. ii. 322 It [sc. a Latin pronunciation (ɑu)] is not reduced pretonically to ŏ; e.g. awdur, cawlai. |