dissimilatoryadj.
/dɪˈsɪmɪlətəri/ Philology.
Pertaining to or produced by dissimilation.
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dissimilatory1901
1901 H. Oertel Lect. Study Lang. iv. 232 The ‘dissimilatory loss’ of a repeated consonant is in no way similar to the syncope (haplology) of one of two similar syllables.
1901 H. Oertel Lect. Study Lang. iv. 234 Obscurity prevails with regard to the causes of dissimilatory substitution of similar sounds, such as l for r, or n for l.
1935 G. K. Zipf Psycho-biol. Lang. (1936) iii. 93 These abbreviatory phonetic changes may be ‘spontaneous’, or accentual, or assimilatory, or dissimilatory.
1945 Mod. Lang. Notes Dec. 546 Danfords is a good example of dissimilatory loss of r.
1952 Archivum Linguisticum 4 35 It could also be argued that the dissimilatory process took the short cut from *morm to *bhorm.
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