Fwd: aphesis: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

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From: Dictionary.com <doctor@dictionary.com>
Date: 2014/1/23
Subject: aphesis: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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	Word of the Day for Thursday, January 23, 2014 aphesis \AF-uh-sis\, noun: Historical Linguistics. the disappearance or loss of an unstressed initial vowel or syllable, as in the formation of the word slant from aslant. In particular, phrases forming a solid continuous unit and having only one main stress can become subjected to aphesis and other phonetic changes. -- Mikko Luukko, Grammatical Variation in Neo-Assyrian, 2004 In other cases we witness aphaeresis, or rather aphesis, the loss of initial segments in the MAGY words… -- György Busztin, The Legacy of the Barang People, 2006 Aphesis is derived from the Greek word of the same spelling meaning "a letting go." Read the full entry | See synonyms | Comment on today's word | Suggest tomorrow's word Yesterday's word | Previous words | Help Words of the Day? How about words of timeless wisdom? Introducing our Quotes channel! "Life itself is a quotation." - Jorge Luis Borges Check out the Quote of the Day ›› Are You a Bro?: Brocab 101 Think back on this: 2007 was a big year for the bro. The famous phrase "Don't tase me, bro!" catapulted into meme-status, and The Onion published a pristine piece called "Bro, You're A God Among Bros" which parodied the tendency of bros to create portmanbros like Bromo sapien and brofessional. Over the last half a... Read more ›› Dictionary.com Word of the Day You are subscribed to the Word of the Day as: hectorpinillos@gmail.com Subscriber since: June 03, 2013 Unsubscribe from the Word of the Day To subscribe to the Word of the Day by email, please send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com ©2014 by Dictionary.com, LLC. 555 12th Street Suite 500 Oakland CA 94607 Subscriptions to the Word of the Day can also be managed online   Tell a friend about the Word of the Day!

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