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post-tonic
post-tonic adj.
Brit. 
/(ˌ)pəʊs(t)ˈtɒnɪk/
, /(ˌ)pəʊs(t)ˈtɒnɪk/U.S. /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈtɑnɪk/
[compare earlier pretonic adj.] following an accented syllable./ˌpoʊs(t)ˈtɑnɪk/ΘΚΠ
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subtonic1827
pretonic1864
post-tonic1880
protonic1890
nuclear1937
prestress1941
post-nuclear1944
pre-nuclear1952
internuclear1958
1880 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 1 232 Influence of post-tonic on the tonic vowel, whereby the whole vowel-system is pushed up one point on the scale.
1953 K. Jackson Lang. & Hist. in Early Brit. ii. 268 Syncope of the post-tonic penultimate syllable.
1991 Lit. & Ling. Computing 6 29/2 These are examples of stages in the reduction of the post-tonic syllable, which is frequently lost in proparoxytones in Eastern Romance.
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- pilosella
- piloser
- pilosesetaceous
- pilosest
- pilosities
- pilosity
- piloso
- piloso-
- piloso-fimbriate
- piloso-hispid
- pilosofimbriate
- pilosohispid
- pilot
- pilot balloon
- pilot bird
- pilot biscuit
- pilot black-snake
- pilot blacksnake
- pilot boat
- pilot bread
- pilot brig
- pilot burner
- pilot cable
- pilot chute
- pilot cloth