aphaeresis

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Noun aphaeresis has 1 sense

aphaeresis, apheresis - (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until'
--₁ is a kind of omission, deletion

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Aphaeresis

Noun

Definition: A linguistic phenomenon where a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word is omitted.

Example sentence: In the word "phone" where "telephone" undergoes aphaeresis, the initial "tele-" is omitted.

Verb

Definition: To undergo or cause aphaeresis.

Example sentence: The contraction "can't" is a result of aphaeresis, removing the "no" from "cannot".

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