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epenthetic

Meaning of "epenthetic" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF EPENTHETIC

ˌɛpɛnˈθɛtɪk


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EPENTHETIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Epenthetic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES EPENTHETIC 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 epenthetic in the English dictionary

The definition of epenthetic in the dictionary is of or relating to epenthesis.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EPENTHETIC

aesthetic · anaesthetic · anesthetic · antithetic · apathetic · biosynthetic · enthetic · esthetic · nucleosynthetic · parasympathetic · parasynthetic · pathetic · polysynthetic · prosthetic · semisynthetic · sympathetic · synanthetic · synthetic · thetic · unsympathetic

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EPENTHETIC

epeirid · epeirogenesis · epeirogenetic · epeirogenic · epeirogenically · epeirogeny · epencephala · epencephalic · epencephalon · ependyma · ependymal · epentheses · epenthesis · epeolatry · epergne · epexegeses · epexegesis · epexegetic · epexegetical · epexegetically

WORDS THAT END LIKE EPENTHETIC

antipathetic · athletic · bathetic · chemosynthetic · diarrhetic · empathetic · general anaesthetic · hypothetic · kinaesthetic · kinesthetic · local anaesthetic · nomothetic · parenthetic · photosynthetic · preanesthetic · prophetic · prothetic · synaesthetic · theopathetic · unaesthetic · unprophetic

Synonyms and antonyms of epenthetic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «epenthetic» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF EPENTHETIC

Find out the translation of epenthetic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of epenthetic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «epenthetic» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

epenthetic
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

epenthetic
570 millions of speakers
en

English

epenthetic
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

epenthetic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

epenthetic
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

epenthetic
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

epentética
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

epenthetic
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

epenthetic
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Epentetik
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

epenthetic
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

epenthetic
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

epenthetic
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Banget
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tháp tự
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

epenthetic
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

एपेट्टरिक
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

epenthetic
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

epenthetic
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

epenthetic
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

epenthetic
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

epenthetic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

epenthetic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

epenthetic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

epenthetic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

epenthetic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of epenthetic

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EPENTHETIC»

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

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EPENTHETIC»

Discover the use of epenthetic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to epenthetic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Markedness: Reduction and Preservation in Phonology
In other words, [r] − and the other high sonority segments − are epenthetic because the demand for adjacent segments to agree in manner of articulation outranks the sonority requirements. Rhotics can be epenthetic when glottals are ...
Paul de Lacy, 2006
2
Issues in Japanese Phonology and Morphology
Epenthetic. Vowels. and. Accent. in. Japanese: Facts. and. Paradoxes. Haruo. Kubozono. Kobe. University. 1. Introduction. Many languages exhibit a phonological phenomenon known as vowel epenthesis in an attempt to conform to syllable ...
Jeroen Maarten van de Weijer, Tetsuo Nishihara, 2001
3
Theoretical Perspectives on Native American Languages: ...
when the epenthesis is strictly syllable-conditioned, i.e. when the epenthetic vowel occurs just to break up nonoccurring consonant clusters. In this case, we do not expect the epenthesis rule to refer to morphological category or that the ...
Donna B. Gerdts, Karin Michelson, 1989
4
Optimality Theory
Context-free markedness > Contextual markedness Epenthetic segment is minimally marked. b. Contextual markedness > Context-free markedness Epenthetic segment is contextually coloured. Of course, this is only a schematic typology.
Rene Kager, 1999
5
The Korean Language
Second, an epenthetic nasal n [ji] is prefixed to the stem-initial / or y [j] in a compound if the stem is preceded by another stem ending in a consonant, e.g., cip-il (house-work) [cim.jiil] 'housework', kkoch-iph (flower-leaf) [k'oji.riip] 'flower petal', ...
Ho-Min Sohn, 2001
6
The Phonology of Romanian: A Constraint-based Approach
The quality of the epenthetic glide We saw that in Romanian, either [j] or [w] may surface as epenthetic, depending on the quality of the adjacent vowels. As stated at the beginning of the chapter, the analysis I propose must also account for the ...
Ioana Chițoran, 2002
7
Formal and Cognitive Restrictions on Vowel Harmony
43 ID,*B,*CC»REC,Dep Spread-L to epenthetic vowel, otherwise right » Spread- L » Spread-R No Spread [+B] projects [+B] 44 ID,*B,*CC»REC,Dep Spread-R to epenthetic vowel, otherwise right » Spread-R » Spread-L No Spread [+B] ...
Sara Finley, 2009
8
Approaches to Phonological Complexity
Some speakers even tend to insert an epenthetic vowel in back-to- front stop clusters, the ones with the most separated gestures. While this process of epenthesis is highly variable at the current stage of the language, it occurs only in the ...
François Pellegrino, 2009
9
The Blackwell companion to phonology. 4. Phonological interfaces
(1998) show that epenthetic CVCVC has only a pitch rise, confirming Oftedal's ( 1956) description. Speakers are reported to consider such sequences monosyllabic (Oftedal 1956: 29) or “nearly monosyllabic” (Borgstrøm 1940: 153). Several ...
Marc van Oostendorp, 2011
10
Vowel Epenthesis in Loanword Adaptation
In a first step, overall frequencies and percentages of epenthetic vowels should be calculated. If it turns out that one vowel is preferred over all others, one could hypothesize that this is the default vowel which will be chosen as a standard ...
Christian Uffmann, 2007

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EPENTHETIC»

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1
Fela: Listening To The Postcolonial Singer
Pronouncing “Turn Right,” “Turn Left,” and “New York” with the epenthetic vowels characteristic of Lagos pidgin English makes the words sound ... «The News, Jun 15»
2
Listen to a symphony of sea urchins
'They can't have epenthetic animals settling on them, so they try and keep themselves clean,' Soars says. 'It's quite a quiet sound so I'm not ... «Radio Australia, May 15»
3
A mid-semester's nightmare
Students, parents, and educators are feeling the heat and suffering the consequences of an epenthetic, unjustified weeklong break that has ... «Arab News, Apr 14»
4
10 annoying sounds you need to stop making
Fortis long final consonant with epenthetic neutral vowel "Don't-tuh do this-suh." This has lately become a thing people observe and comment ... «The Week Magazine, Jul 13»
5
The humble spatula's linguistic origins
During its journey into Old French, spatha gained an epenthetic e- before the sp- cluster, and the th between the vowels weakened, first to a d, ... «The Week Magazine, Jul 13»
6
Lingering over lingerie?
The epenthetic “f” occurs in lieutenant [lef.tuh.nuhnt], and “j” in soldier [sol.juhr]. Same letter, different sounds. In general, each letter of the ... «Malaysia Star, Sep 10»
7
How to: archive and back up photos
... trisemic subcrustaceous urnfuls windburn changelessness hexagon kerolite epenthetic orpiment panarchy peai narcotization supereloquent ... «What Digital Camera, Sep 10»
8
James Joyce brings the Irish and the Jews together
The presence of guttural sounds, diadritic aspirations,epenthetic and servile letters in both languages: their antiquity, both having been taught ... «Irish Central, Jun 10»
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Epenthetic [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/epenthetic>. May 2024 ».
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