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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ANAPTYXIS

Via New Latin from Greek anaptuxis, from anaptussein to unfold, from ana- + ptussein to fold.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ANAPTYXIS

anaptyxis  [ˌænæpˈtɪksɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANAPTYXIS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Anaptyxis is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ANAPTYXIS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Epenthesis

In phonology, epenthesis means the addition of one or more sounds to a word, especially to the interior of a word. The word epenthesis comes from epi + en + thesis. Epenthesis may be divided into two types: excrescence, for the addition of a consonant, and anaptyxis for the addition of a vowel.

Definition of anaptyxis in the English dictionary

The definition of anaptyxis in the dictionary is the insertion of a short vowel between consonants in order to make a word more easily pronounceable.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ANAPTYXIS


amphimixis
ˌæmfɪˈmɪksɪs
anaphylaxis
ˌænəfɪˈlæksɪs
apomixis
ˌæpəˈmɪksɪs
axis
ˈæksɪs
cathexis
kəˈθɛksɪs
chemoprophylaxis
ˌkɛməʊˌprəʊfəˈlæksɪs
chemotaxis
ˌkɛməʊˈtæksɪs
deixis
ˈdaɪksɪs
endeixis
ɛnˈdaɪksɪs
endomixis
ˌendəʊˈmɪksɪs
epistaxis
ˌɛpɪˈstæksɪs
lexis
ˈlɛksɪs
panmixis
pænˈmɪksɪs
praxis
ˈpræksɪs
prophylaxis
ˌprɒfɪˈlæksɪs
ptyxis
ˈtɪksɪs
pyxis
ˈpɪksɪs
stylostixis
ˌstaɪləʊˈstɪksɪs
taxis
ˈtæksɪs
Zeuxis
ˈzjuːksɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANAPTYXIS

anaphoric
anaphorical
anaphorically
anaphrodisia
anaphrodisiac
anaphylactic
anaphylactic shock
anaphylactically
anaphylactoid
anaphylaxis
anaphylaxy
anaplasia
anaplasmosis
anaplastic
anaplasty
anaplerosis
anaptyctic
anaptyctical
anaptyxes

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANAPTYXIS

aerotaxis
anatexis
major axis
minor axis
neutral axis
optic axis
parataxis
phototaxis
phylaxis
phyllotaxis
polar axis
principal axis
sparaxis
stereotaxis
synaxis
tachyphylaxis
the Axis
x-axis
y-axis
z-axis

Synonyms and antonyms of anaptyxis in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «anaptyxis» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ANAPTYXIS

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anaptyxis
1,325 millions of speakers

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Anaptyxis
570 millions of speakers

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anaptyxis
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anaptyxis
380 millions of speakers
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ANAPTYXIS
280 millions of speakers

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anaptyxis
278 millions of speakers

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Anaptyxis
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anaptyxis
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ANAPTYXIS
220 millions of speakers

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Anaptixis
190 millions of speakers

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Anaptyxis
180 millions of speakers

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anaptyxis
130 millions of speakers

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anaptyxis
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Anaptyksis
85 millions of speakers
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anaptyxis
80 millions of speakers

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anaptyxis
75 millions of speakers

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अॅप्टिक्सिस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

anaptyxis
70 millions of speakers

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anaptyxis
65 millions of speakers

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Anaptyxis
50 millions of speakers

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anaptyxis
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ANAPTYXIS
30 millions of speakers
el

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anaptyxis
15 millions of speakers
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anaptyxis
14 millions of speakers
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Anaptyxis
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

anaptyxis
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of anaptyxis

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANAPTYXIS»

The term «anaptyxis» is used very little and occupies the 154.377 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ANAPTYXIS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about anaptyxis

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANAPTYXIS»

Discover the use of anaptyxis in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to anaptyxis and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Ancient Languages of Europe
Another feature characteristic of Oscan phonology is the anaptyxis of vowels to break up clusters consisting of sonorant (liquids, nasals) and some other consonant. Anaptyxis occurred in sonorant plus consonant clusters, for example,  ...
Roger D. Woodard, 2008
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Dialect Geography of Syria-Palestine, 1000-586 B.C.E.
ARAMAIC: At least incipient anaptyxis, as seen in the contrast between my [sade] "owl" (Sf. I A 33) < *sady and mj [gade] "kid" (Sf. II A 2) < *#«c/v, over against ny " gazelle" (Sf. I A 33) < *Uiby.1*" While all three nouns are *qatl- formations of final  ...
W. Randall Garr, 2004
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A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of Central and Southern Sinai
Anaptyxis in clusters resulting from 'colliding' morphological base forms In group I dialects sandhi clusters of four consonants caused by the collision of morphological base forms are resolved through anaptyxis like in group VI. 2.3.2.2 .
Rudolf Erik De Jong, 2011
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Optimality Theory and Language Change
The epenthetic vowel in ^Ifric's wcetera, -u is inserted at level II by a process that we shall label 'anaptyxis'; see Tableau 3. Anaptyxis is fuelled by CONTACT, the constraint that requires that sonority fall across syllable boundaries (Clements ...
D.E. Holt, International Linguistic Association, 2003
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La-ḥšōb̲, But La-ḥǎzōr?: Sonority, Optimality, and the ...
In Ps 29:9 we find the form IVfD1l yehesop, whereas the two forms in the other two represented books do not exhibit anaptyxis. There are some examples that do not support the suggestion that prosodic factors trigger anaptyxis more often in  ...
Silje Alvestad, Lutz Edzard, 2009
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Anatolian Historical Phonology. (Leiden Studies in ...
6.1.6.2.3 Anaptyxis As per 1.2.6.6, I distinguish between those cases where a prehistoric anaptyctic vowel has become underlying synchronically and those where forms with and without the anaptyctic vowel alternate synchronically. For the ...
H. Craig Melchert, 1994
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A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of ...
Anagtiai 'Angitiae' from *Ang(e)tid-\ — Liganakdikei, name of a goddess, from * legdn(i)ko-dik- (or from Hegndko-, and so belonging in 81?). Cf. also Pael. Anaceta 'Angitiae' beside Anoeta, Anacta. Note. Usually there is no anaptyxis between ...
Carl Darling Buck, 2005
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Bono Homini Donum: Essays in Historical Linguistics in ...
In favor of this interpretation of PIE anaptyxis as late, it should be noted that even Greek, which is, of course, highly conservative in its treatment of PIE vocalism, shows varrying reflexes of the PIE anaptyctic vowel. Sometimes it resembles ...
Yoel L. Arbeitman, Allan R. Bomhard, 1981
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The Regional Diversification of Latin 200 BC - AD 600
Etr.trepu), given both theband the anaptyxis, but suggests that both the vocalism and the anaptyxis are typical of parts of the Oscan–Umbrian group (for anaptyxis in Oscan see Buck 1904: 52–3). However, the anaptyxis would not be normal for  ...
J. N. Adams, 2007
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Sound Law and Analogy: Papers in Honor of Robert S.P. Beekes ...
Syncope and anaptyxis in Hittite H. Craig Mel chert (University of North Carolina) Syncope and anaptyxis are undeniably genuine and widespread synchronic and diachronic processes.1 However, it is often difficult to determine the precise ...
Alexander Lubotsky, 1997

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