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apophonies

apophonies is the plural of apophony.

Meaning of apophony

Noun

apophony (countable and uncountable, plural apophonies)

  1. Modification of an internal vowel sound in a word or linguistic root, especially so as to establish a lexical distinction.
    • Cinglar has the merit of referring to a back and forth movement, which one might suppose is suggested by the apophony of zinguizangue […]1986, David A. Pharies, Structure and Analogy in the Playful Lexicon of Spanish, →ISBN, page 171

Questions about apophonies

What is apophonies the plural of?
Apophonies is the plural of apophony.

Words near apophonies in the dictionary

  1. apophlegmatics
  2. apophlegmatism
  3. apophlegmatisms
  4. apophonic
  5. apophonically
  6. apophonies
  7. apophony
  8. apophthegm
  9. apophthegmatic
  10. apophthegmatical
  11. apophthegmatically

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