The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lost, tending, lose, inflections, phonetic.
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Anaptotic
Having lost, or tending to lose, inflections by phonetic decay; as, anaptotic languages.
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