preiotationn.
/ˌpriːʌɪə(ʊ)ˈteɪʃn/, /ˌpriːjɒˈteɪʃn/, U.S. /ˈˌpriˌaɪəˈteɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌprijəˈteɪʃ(ə)n/ Linguistics.
The development or occurrence of a palatal glide before a vowel, esp. (in Slavonic languages) one having the effect of palatalizing or softening a preceding consonant within the same word.
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preiotation1877
preiotization1887
1877 A. H. Keane tr. A. Hovelacque Sci. of Lang. v. 281 The Lithuanian este becomes jeste in Church Slavonic; and this ‘prëiotation’, as it is technically called, is a leading feature of all the Slavonic tongues.
1954 A. Stender-Peterson Anthol. Old Russ. Lit. p. xxiii A conventional system of transliteration [in which]..j: symbolizes, before or after vowels, the prejotation or postjotation of the vowel.
1977 Slavic & East European Jrnl. 21 1 The inscription is clearly the work of not one, but two stonecutters... Each cutter's alphabet had only two letters for nasal vowels, and these letters did not admit of pre-iotation.
1979 J. L. Press tr. V. Kiparsky Russ. Hist. Gram. 93 It is only in the deictic particle that both prejotation and the change /e/ > /o/ are absent.
1988 Slavic & East European Jrnl. 32 611 He believes that ‘the need for a symmetrical system of nasal vowels’ with ‘a preiotated and non-preiotated variant’ exists in KF, because the smooth breathing or else the circumflex accent mark ‘preiotation’.
2002 A. J. Aitken & C. Macafee Older Sc. Vowels 132 O[lder] Sc[ots] instances of preiotation before other initial front monophthongs also exist.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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