In linguistics terms the difference between prothesis and prothetic
is that prothesis is the prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in {{term|nother}}, from {{term|other}} (“a whole nother thing”), or Spanish {{term|esfera|lang=es}} from Latin {{term|sphaera||sphere|lang=la}} while prothetic is of, relating to, or involving prothesis.
As a noun prothesis
is the prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in {{term|nother}}, from {{term|other}} (“a whole nother thing”), or Spanish {{term|esfera|lang=es}} from Latin {{term|sphaera||sphere|lang=la}}.
As an adjective prothetic is
of, relating to, or involving prothesis.
prothesis
English
Etymology 1
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However, often confused for a descendant of the Ancient Greek word ), which is instead the source of a different term – see , below.
Noun
(protheses)
(linguistics) The prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in (nother), from (other) (“a whole nother thing”), or Spanish esfera from Latin .
Synonyms
* prosthesis
Antonyms
* aphesis
Related terms
* prosthesis
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .
Noun
(protheses)
a type of preparatory ceremony, part of the Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church
References
prothetic
English
Adjective
(-)
(linguistics) of, relating to, or involving prothesis
