| 单词 | aphesis |
| 释义 | aphesis (once / 656629 pages) n WORD FAMILY aphesis USAGE EXAMPLESAphesis is the loss of the unaccented first syllable, as in 'baccy and 'later. Weekley, Ernest, The Romance of Names(2010) This English tendency to aphesis is satirised in a French song of the 14th century, intentionally written in bad French. Weekley, Ernest, The Romance of Words (4th ed.)(2010) Many names beginning with n are due to aphesis, e.g. Weekley, Ernest, The Romance of Names(2010) n the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire' Hyper deletion, omission any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases |
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