Definition of Dissimilate. Meaning of Dissimilate. Synonyms of Dissimilate

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Definition of Dissimilate

Dissimilate
Dissimilate Dis*sim"i*late, v. t. To render dissimilar.

Meaning of Dissimilate from wikipedia

- a way that is not easily remedied through re-wording, the forms may dissimilate. For example, in modern Korean the vowels /e/ and /ɛ/ are merging for...
- vowels sporadically ****imilate to, or dissimilate from, the stressed vowel of the following syllable. /a/ can dissimilate to /o/ before a following /a/. Cf...
- imitating Latin simulare "to emulate", from similis "alike" ****imilate, dissimilate, dissemble, ensemble, resemble, semblance, similar, similarity, simile...
- next to each other. The first of the two tone 3's becomes a tone 2 to dissimilate from the other syllable. Sinologists sometimes use reversed Chao tone...
- development known as Geers' law, where one of two emphatic consonants dissimilates to the corresponding non-emphatic consonant. For the sibilants, traditionally...
- or Middle Juz). They originate from eastern Kazakhstan. Some Naimans dissimilated with the Kyrgyz and Uzbek ethnicities and are still found among them...
- finally Liberec (1845). In Czech, words starting with "R" were often dissimilated into "L". Since then, the city was known as Liberec in Czech and as Reichenberg...
- Proto-Indo-European language (PIE). It states that a labiovelar stop (*kʷ, *gʷ, *gʷʰ) dissimilates to an ordinary velar stop (*k, *g, *gʰ) next to the vowel *u or its corresponding...
- penultimate syllable becomes high (not falling), the final syllable dissimilates and becomes low if it was not already. Tone displacement is blocked under...
- standard перечёл /pʲɛrʲɛˈt͡ɕɔɫ/). In these examples the groups *tl, dl dissimilated to /kɫ/, /ɡɫ/ instead of reducing to /ɫ/. Some (Shakhmatov, Durnovo)...