prothetic

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek προθετικός (prothetikós).[1]

Adjective

prothetic (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics) of, relating to, or involving prothesis
  2. (phonology, of an instance of a phoneme) attached to the beginning of a word
    • 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 10:
      Basque does not allow word-initial r-, adding a prothetic vowel in Latin and Romance loans (e.g. Bq. errege 'king' << Lat. regem)

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References

  1. ^ “prothetic, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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