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apocope::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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the British get `pud' from `pudding' by apocope.
Examples of apocope
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Word-final short vowels tend to be subject to apocope except for when the stem is syllabic.
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For example, a nominative is described as having apocope of the final vowel, whereas the genitive does not.
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This happens even as a result of apocope of final vowels, which causes non-final obstruents to become final.
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The final step of lenition is then complete apocope.
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This is known as the Danish apocope.
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The variability in the examples also reflects differences between number of genders, postclitic versus enclitic article and apocope.
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In some exceptional cases, after the syncope of the intervocalic consonant, there is also an additional apocope of the inflection marker.
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Furthermore, the apocope of word-final sounds is extensive and has contributed to a shift from a purely agglutinative to a fusional language.
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Elision is the loss of unstressed sounds, aphaeresis the loss of initial sounds, syncope is the loss of medial sounds, and apocope is the loss of final sounds.
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- Abbreviation of a word by omitting the final sound or sounds; "the British get `pud' from `pudding' by apocope"
- In phonology, apocope (from the Greek apokoptein "cutting off", from apo- "away from" and koptein "to cut") is the loss of one or more sounds from the end of a word, and especially the loss of an unstressed vowel.
- The loss or omission of a sound or syllable from the end of a word
- Loss of the final portion of a word. For example, info from information; cinema from cinematograph. See also: aphaeresis.
- Loss of the final letter or letters of a word to create a new word: "taxi" from "taxicab", "curio" from "curiosity".
- A change that consists in the deletion of a final sound. The loss of final e in English (still written) is an example. Spanish has a phenomenon of conditioned apocope for some adjectives: grande becomes gran when placed before a noun (hombre grande vs. gran hombre). ...
- The loss of final sounds. Primer is an apocopated form of primero.
- N. - cutting off end of word. apocopate, v. & a.
