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Provection (from Latin:
provectio "advancement") is a
technical term of
linguistics with two main senses. (1) The
carrying over of the
final consonant...
- "crooked pool". Here the b is ****umed to have
survived late
enough to
cause provection.
Jackson notes that only in the
north does the
cluster appear in place...
- ewt(e). The
initial "n" was
added from the
indefinite article "an" by
provection (juncture loss) ("an eft" → "a n'eft" → ...) by the
early 15th century...
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Nouns are
spirantized after ow 'my': tas 'father' > ow thas 'my father'
Provection or "hard" mutation:
Verbs are
provected after the
verbal particle ow (approximately...
- feminine, or plural); e.g.
wynneb 'face' > y
hwynneb 'her face'. 5.
Provection Provection is a
phenomenon that
causes devoicing of
consonants within certain...
- invect, invection, invective, inveigh, nonconvective, pretervection,
provection, quasiconvex, quasiconvexity, transvection, vection, vector, vectorial...
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known as Gwenhwyseg, the name was
often pronounced as
Tredecar (with
provection of /g/ to /k/).
There was also a
shortened form Decar.
Tredegar became...
- and the
provection of /d/ to /t/ at the
beginning of a
penultimate syllable. A more
standard form of this is
Llanedarn (south-eastern
provection being a...
- -ach "-er" and -a(f) "-est",
which change final b, d, g into p, t, c by
provection, e. g. teg "fair",
tecach "fairer", teca(f) "fairest".
Adjectives with...
- -añ (superlative).
These suffixes cause preceding consonants to
undergo provection (see gleb "wet" and ruz "red" in the table). Mat "good" and
drouk "bad"...
