pausa

pausa noun: the hiatus between prosodic units, e.g. at the end of a sentence.

Noun

pausa (uncountable)

The hiatus between prosodic units, e.g. at the end of a sentence.
- The rule is that in the pausa a word must never end on a short vowel, but it may do so in the context.1954, Johannes Hendrik Kramers, Analecta orientalia: posthumous writings and selected minor works
- Besides, the pausa endposition may have served to highlight the informational value of the substituendum.1998, Pádraig MacCoisdealbha, The Syntax of the Sentence in Old Irish, →ISBN

In pausa you say 'ih, in the jussive la- ta'ih, analogous to 'ih, la- ta'ih.2004, Gerhard Endress, Rüdiger Arnzen, Jörn Thielmann, Words, Texts, and Concepts Cruising the Mediterranean Sea, →ISBN:
For instance, the perfect in -miš (> -mi before pausa) always has the high unrounded vowel, the abstract noun suffix appears in a single variant +luġ, the infinitive is -maġ and the instrumental +ine.2005, Éva Ágnes Csató, Bo Isaksson, Carina Jahani, Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion: Case Studies from Iranian, page 245:

From Latin pausa (“break”), from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis). Doublet of pause.

What does pausa mean?: Pausa means the hiatus between prosodic units, e.g. at the end of a sentence.
What is pausa in Urdu?: Pausa in Urdu is وقف (vaqf). See Pausa meaning in Urdu.
How do you use pausa in a sentence?: In pausa you say 'ih, in the jussive la- ta'ih, analogous to 'ih, la- ta'ih.
What part of speech is pausa?: Pausa is a noun.

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