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单词 skothending
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skothendingn.

/ˈskɒthɛndɪŋ/
Etymology: Old Norse.
Prosody.
Chiefly in Scaldic verse: rhyme formed with the same consonant or consonant cluster preceded by differing vowels; half-rhyme.
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alternity1792
skothending1838
assonance1917
pararhyme1931
off-rhyme1938
slant-rhyme1944
1838 G. P. Marsh Compendious Gram. Old-Northern or Icel. Lang. iv. 144 The same consonants with different vowels (skothending, half-rhyme, or assonance).
1860 G. P. Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. xxv. 553 In Icelandic poetry,..imperfect rhyme is regularly employed, and..is called skothendíng,..which we may conveniently translate by half-rhyme.
c1873–4 G. M. Hopkins Note-bks. & Papers (1937) 243 In Icelandic verse an opposite kind of alliteration (skothendíng) is made use of, namely ending with the same consonant but after a different vowel, as ‘bad’ ‘led’, ‘find’ ‘band’, ‘sin’ ‘run’ (from Marsh, who calls it half-rhyme).
1945 L. M. Hollander Skalds 10 The skothending in the odd, and the ađalhending in the even, half-line always involve the second but last syllable.
1977 J. Milroy Lang. G. M. Hopkins v. 144 We are not accustomed to notice skothending (end-consonant rhyme) when it occurs in English. Hopkins uses it very liberally.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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