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aphaeresis::noun | Spocien Dictionary

aphaeresis

/ə'fɛrɪsɪs/

(linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until'

Type	Words
Synonyms	apheresis
Type of	deletion, omission
Derivation	aphaeretic