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haplologise

haplologise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of haplologize.

Meaning of haplologize

Verb

haplologize (third-person singular simple present haplologizes, present participle haplologizing, simple past and past participle haplologized)

  1. (intransitive) To undergo haplology.
    • In neither instance is more than one possessive s manifested (*McMug's's); the predicted two suffixes ''haplologize to a single instance of s.2000, Morphologie / Morphology, 1. Halbband, →ISBN, page 395
  2. (transitive) To shorten by haplology.
    • A number of IE languages show a tendency to haplologize sequences of the type *-sVs- to *-s-,1999, Compositiones indogermanicae: in memoriam Jochem Schindler (Heiner Eichner, Hans Christian Luschützky, Velizar Sadovski)

Forms of haplologise

third-person singular presenthaplologises
present participlehaplologising
past participlehaplologised
pasthaplologised

Questions about haplologise

What is haplologise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Haplologise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of haplologize.

Words near haplologise in the dictionary

  1. haplolethality
  2. haplologic
  3. haplological
  4. haplologically
  5. haplologies
  6. haplologise
  7. haplologised
  8. haplologize
  9. haplologized
  10. haplologizes
  11. haplologizing

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