svarabhaktin.
/svʌrəˈbʌkti/, /svɑːrəˈbʌkti/, /svɑːrəˈbakti/, /svarəˈbakti/, /swarəˈbakti/, U.S. /ˌsfɑrəˈbɑkti/ Philology.
The process by which a parasitic vowel is inserted between two consonants. Usually attributive, esp. as svarabhakti vowel.
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svarabhakti1880
parasite1888
parasiting1888
1880 A. H. Sayce Introd. Sci. of Lang. I. 317 The insertion..of vowels..goes under the technical name of Swarabhakti. This name was imported from the Hindu grammarians by Johannes Schmidt.
1880 A. H. Sayce Introd. Sci. of Lang. I. 318 Prosthesis, or prothesis..is another illustration of Swarabhakti.
1888 J. E. King & C. Cookson Princ. Sound & Inflexion Greek & Lat. 70 The same indeterminate vowel appears in Sk., where it is called a svarabhakti vowel.
1908 Indogerm. Forsch. XXIII. 254 The -i- of pulisa- and the second -u- of puruṣ̌a are svarabhakti-vowels.
1942 Amer. Speech 17 100 A short vowel in E before r + a velar is lowered to [ɑ] in the dialect and a svarabhakti [ i] develops between the r and the velar.
1977 F. Collinson in Campbell & Collinson Hebridean Folksongs II. 257 The variation of rhythm or melody arising from the presence of a svarabhakti vowel is of constant occurrence in most of the songs.
Derivatives
svaraˈbhaktic adj.
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svarabhaktic1894
1894 W. M. Lindsay Lat. Lang. 145 The inserted or ‘parasitic’ vowel (sometimes styled in the terminology of the Sanskrit grammarians ‘svarabhaktic’ vowel..) is often seen in the older Latin loanwords from Greek.
1965 Eng. Stud. 46 174 We may here just possibly be..taking..the e to be svarabhaktic.
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