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Aphesis
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
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.
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Part of speech: noun (n.)
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.