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svarabhakti Philol.|swaraˈb(h)akti, svara-| [Skr., vowel-separation, f. svára vowel + bhaktí separation.] The process by which a parasitic vowel is inserted between two consonants. Usu. attrib., esp. as svarabhakti vowel.
1880A. H. Sayce Introd. Sci. of Lang. I. 317 The insertion..of vowels..goes under the technical name of Swarabhakti. This name was imported from the Hindu grammarians by Johannes Schmidt. Ibid. 318 Prosthesis, or prothesis..is another illustration of Swarabhakti. 1888[see indeterminate a. (n.) 2 e]. 1908Indogerm. Forsch. XXIII. 254 The -i- of pulisa- and the second -u- of puruṣ̌a are svarabhakti-vowels. 1942Amer. Speech XVII. 100 A short vowel in E before r + a velar is lowered to [ɑ] in the dialect and a svarabhakti [i] develops between the r and the velar. 1977F. Collinson in Campbell & Collinson Hebridean Folksongs II. 257 The variation of rhythm or melody arising from the presence of a svarabhakti vowel is of constant occurrence in most of the songs. Hence svaraˈbhaktic a.
1894W. M. Lindsay Latin Lang. 145 The inserted or ‘parasitic’ vowel (sometimes styled in the terminology of the Sanskrit grammarians ‘svarabhaktic’ vowel..) is often seen in the older Latin loanwords from Greek. 1965English Studies XLVI. 174 We may here just possibly be..taking..the e to be svarabhaktic. |