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Definition of Aphesis

Aphesis
Aphesis Aph"e*sis, n. [Gr. ? a letting go; ? + ? to let go.] The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire. --New Eng. Dict.

Meaning of Aphesis from wikipedia

- "to take". The hyponyms aphesis (/ˈæfəsɪs/) and aphetic, coined in 1880 by James Murray, is inspired by Gr**** ἄφεσις aphesis, "letting go" from ἀφίημι...
- Tafia (possibly an alteration of ratafia, via aphesis) is a drink similar to rum made from sugarcane juice. It is typically unaged whereas rum is typically...
- the name as a reference to the Amorites, having lost the initial a via aphesis; the name is thus interpreted as meaning land of the Amorites. This agrees...
- Language (1989 ed.), state that federacy is synonymous with confederacy ("by aphesis"). In French, the English words federacy, confederacy, and confederation...
- the loss of a sound from the beginning of a word, is called apheresis or aphesis. Prothesis may occur during word formation from borrowing from foreign...
- Cornelia to Julia Domna, p. 170 Martin Gansten, "Balbillus and the Method of aphesis" (July 2012), p.587 Beck, Beck on Mithraism: Collected Works With New Essays...
- simultaneously on the tracks, but soon the tracks were reduced to 17. The aphesis (starting points) were made of stone. The tiers on the south side were...
- Mispronouncing a word according to its infelicitous or ambiguous spelling. Aphesis: Dropping the sound at the start of a word.[citation needed] Aspiration:...
- briquero), "cribo" becomes brico, etc. Other words were formed through aphesis (from "apanar" was derived panar; from "otana," tana). In Gacería, the...
- Umbindhamu Uradhi Yaygirr Yugambal Western Desert Language (some dialects) Aphesis Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development...