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s | aphesis |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun aphesis is

(linguistics|prosody) the loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word.

s

Translingual

{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)

Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    aphesis

    English

    Noun

    (apheses)
  • (linguistics, prosody) The loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word.
    • The word "scarp" is derived from "escarp" by aphesis .

    Antonyms

    * prothesis (addition of the beginning of a word) * apocope (omission at the end of a word)

    Related terms

    * aphetic * aphetism * aphetized

    Hypernyms

    * apheresis

    See also

    * ("aphesis" on Wikipedia)

    Anagrams

    * English nouns with irregular plurals