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iotations

iotations is the plural of iotation.

Meaning of iotation

Noun

iotation (usually uncountable, plural iotations)

  1. (usually) A specific occurrence of palatalization that occurred in the Proto-Slavic language, in which a consonant combined with the palatal approximant /j/ to form a palatalized consonant.
  2. (usually) Any similar process occurring in a later Slavic language or elsewhere.
    • A form of iotation in the Serbo-Croatian language: s (/s/) + j (/ʲ/) = sj (/sʲ/), which is then superseded into ś (/ɕ/)

Questions about iotations

What is iotations the plural of?
Iotations is the plural of iotation.

Words near iotations in the dictionary

  1. iotate
  2. iotated
  3. iotates
  4. iotating
  5. iotation
  6. iotations
  7. IOTBW
  8. iothalamate
  9. iothalamates
  10. iothion
  11. iotified

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Adapted from Wiktionary: iotations (page history and authors); iotation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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