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haplologizing

haplologizing is the present participle and gerund 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 haplologizing

What is haplologizing the present participle and gerund of?
Haplologizing is the present participle and gerund of haplologize.

Words near haplologizing in the dictionary

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

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