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haplologizes

haplologizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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)

Questions about haplologizes

What is haplologizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Haplologizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of haplologize.

Words near haplologizes in the dictionary

  1. haplologies
  2. haplologise
  3. haplologised
  4. haplologize
  5. haplologized
  6. haplologizes
  7. haplologizing
  8. haplology
  9. haplome
  10. haplomes
  11. haplometrosis

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