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svarabhakti

Meaning of "svarabhakti" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF SVARABHAKTI

ˌsvɑːrəˈbɑːktiː


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SVARABHAKTI

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Svarabhakti 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 SVARABHAKTI 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 svarabhakti in the English dictionary

The definition of svarabhakti in the dictionary is the process by which a vowel is inserted between consonants, esp for rhythmical reasons in poetry or song e.g. Eng-a-land for England.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SVARABHAKTI

DT · EET · evictee · graffiti · guarantee · Hippolyte · illuminati · LGBT · literati · moti · parti · sente · shanti · stacte · te · tea · tee · ti · titi · trustee

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SVARABHAKTI

suturation · suture · Suu Kyi · SUV · Suva · Suvorov · Suwannee · Suwannee Sound · suzerain · suzerainties · suzerainty · Suzhou · sv · Svalbard · svedberg · svelte · sveltely · svelteness

WORDS THAT END LIKE SVARABHAKTI

anti · arti · Asti · avanti · bhakti · Bugatti · Cincinnati · Corpus Christi · Djibouti · Gujarati · Haiti · Kiribati · Kuwaiti · Patti · Sakti · Shakti · spaghetti · Tahiti · tanti · tutti

Synonyms and antonyms of svarabhakti in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «svarabhakti» into 25 languages

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svarabhakti
1,325 millions of speakers
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svarabhakti
570 millions of speakers
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English

svarabhakti
510 millions of speakers
hi

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svarabhakti
380 millions of speakers
ar

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svarabhakti
280 millions of speakers
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svarabhakti
278 millions of speakers
pt

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svarabhakti
270 millions of speakers
bn

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svarabhakti
260 millions of speakers
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svarabhakti
220 millions of speakers
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Svarabhakti
190 millions of speakers
de

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svarabhakti
180 millions of speakers
ja

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svarabhakti
130 millions of speakers
ko

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svarabhakti
85 millions of speakers
jv

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Svarabhakti
85 millions of speakers
vi

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svarabhakti
80 millions of speakers
ta

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svarabhakti
75 millions of speakers
mr

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स्वरभाक्षा
75 millions of speakers
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svarabhakti
70 millions of speakers
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svarabhakti
65 millions of speakers
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svarabhakti
50 millions of speakers
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svarabhakti
40 millions of speakers
ro

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svarabhakti
30 millions of speakers
el

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svarabhakti
15 millions of speakers
af

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svarabhakti
14 millions of speakers
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svarabhakti
10 millions of speakers
no

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svarabhakti
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SVARABHAKTI»

Discover the use of svarabhakti in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to svarabhakti and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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On the Durational Variability of Svarabhakti Vowels in ...
Lastly, I compare the results of the current study with those of other empirical studies related to SV durational variability in Spanish and I discuss residual issues of the study for further research.
Benjamin Sean Schmeiser, 2006
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On Germanic Linguistics: Issues and Methods
svarabhakti;. conclusions. As already indicated, a central problem that confronts students of Germanic vowel lengthenings in diphthongal groups is the relation between lengthened forms (like Old English dId) and those with svarabhakti (like  ...
Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr, Robert L. Kyes, 1992
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Journal of the American Oriental Society
Liiders does, that the conjunct rh was still pronounced without the svarabhakti, or was at any rate written10 in that manner. Assuming that our reading of the word arh- in both sets of manuscripts is correct, this coincidence, which is a proof as- ...
‎1920
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The Atharva-Veda Prâtiçâkhya Or Çâunakîyâ Caturâdhyâyikâ
Groups suffering the interposition of svarabhakti only: 1st, of the longer svarabhakti: rf (as r°p), rsh ; — 2nd, of the shorter; <*, of three consonants: rjy (as r'jy), rts, rsht, rshn ; (?, of four consonants: rtsy (as r'tsy), runny. I have assumed that, ...
William Dwight Whitney, 1862
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The Syllable: Views and Facts
The case of Applecross must be excluded from the present discussion further since, as both Ternes (1973) and Borgsrram (1941) remark, in this dialect the distinction between the svarabhakti and non-svarabhakti cases is determined in purely ...
Harry van der Hulst, Nancy A. Ritter, 1999
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A Grammar of Afrikaans
Deon [dion] Leon [lion] Schalk [skalk] Theo [tiu] 1.7. Pronunciation of South African and foreign place names (see 4.5.3) 1.8. Insertion of svarabhakti vowels to break up consonant clusters Clusters formed from i or r plus morn (i.e. liquid plus ...
Bruce C. Donaldson, 1993
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The Sounds of English and Dutch
2. For Dutch dark [i] there is often no contact between the tongue and the alveolar ridge, so that the articulation takes on the character of a back vowel. 3. The sequences /if, iP, im, lk, ix/ often exhibit [a ]-insertion (also termed svarabhakti) , 2 e.g. ...
Beverley Collins, Inger Margrethe Mees, 1984
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Bandle, Oscar; Braunmüller, Kurt; Jahr, Ernst Hakon; Karker, ...
Throughout, I will give examples with the original vowel preserved. Svarabhakti vowels are only present in the latter part of this period. There are still texts that frequently leave out the svarabhakti vowels, i.e. AVgL, GL and several manuscripts ...
Mouton De Gruyter, 2002
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The Edinburgh Companion to the Gaelic Language
Within the phonological word, there is no evidence for secondary stress (again, leaving aside the question of the svarabhakti vowels). While some languages demonstrate a recurring pattern of binary metrical feet in addition to primary stress, ...
Moray Watson, Michelle Macleod, 2010
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Language in the British Isles
Svarabhakti The development of an epenthetic vowel within certain consonant groups is common to all the Gaelic languages, but in Scotland there are some special developments in the north-west dialects, i.e. those of the Hebrides and the ...
Peter Trudgill, 1984
REFERENCE
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