pretonen.
/ˈpriːˌtəʊn/, U.S. /priˈtoʊn/ Hebrew Grammar.
Also more fully pretone syllable. A syllable or vowel which immediately precedes a stressed or accented syllable; = pretonic n.
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1884 C. H. Toy in Amer. Jrnl. Philol. Dec. 499 The number of occurrences of shewā in pretone is considerable.
1892 A. B. Davidson Introd. Hebrew Gram. (ed. 10) 46 ā in the pretone, or ā in the tone, or ā in both places.
1944 Jrnl. Bibl. Lit. 63 312 (note) Goetz, in particular, favors the assumption that ‘pretone lengthening’ resulted from an actual stress which the ‘pretone’ syllable had at some time in the history of Hebrew accentuation.
1990 A. Murtonen Hebrew in W. Semitic Setting ii. ii. 110 The main exception, apart from permanently long vowels, are those in the so-called pretone syllable.
2002 Jrnl. Intelligent Information Syst. 19 102 The linguistic features include..the vowel, constant and the tone of prior pitch (prevowel, preconsonant, pretone).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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