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aphaeresis

/ aphaeresis /
noun

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noun Sense 1
(linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon'' for `raccoon'' or `till'' for `until''
Type of:
omission deletion
Domain:
linguistics
Semantic Complexity
56%
Sense Count
1
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
2
Times Searched
14
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