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pleophony

pleophony noun: the phenomenon by which the Late Proto-Slavic "liquid diphthongs", formed from a vowel followed by a liquid *r or *l, become disyllabic -oro-, -ere- and -olo- reflexes in East Slavic languages.

Noun

pleophony (uncountable)

  1. The phenomenon by which the Late Proto-Slavic "liquid diphthongs", formed from a vowel followed by a liquid *r or *l, become disyllabic -oro-, -ere- and -olo- reflexes in East Slavic languages.
    Synonyms:
    polnoglasie

Synonyms of pleophony

Origin of pleophony

From pleo- + -phony.

Questions about pleophony

What does pleophony mean?
Pleophony means the phenomenon by which the Late Proto-Slavic "liquid diphthongs", formed from a vowel followed by a liquid *r or *l, become disyllabic -oro-, -ere- and -olo- reflexes in East Slavic languages.
What part of speech is pleophony?
Pleophony is a noun.

Words near pleophony in the dictionary

  1. pleonite
  2. pleonites
  3. pleons
  4. pleophagous
  5. pleophonic
  6. pleophony
  7. pleophyletic
  8. pleopod
  9. pleopoda
  10. pleopodal
  11. pleopodes

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