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epenthesis Gram.|ɛˈpɛnθɪsɪs|
[late L. epenthesis, a. Gr. ἐπένθεσις, f. ἐπί in addition + ἐν in + θέσις placing, f. τι-θέ-ναι to place. Cf. Fr. epenthèse.]
(See quot. 1657) Subsequently used in a wider sense to account for the presence of an unetymological vowel (cf. anaptyxis) or consonant.
In mod. philology applied spec. to the phonetic change which consists in the transference of a semi-vowel to the syllable preceding that in which it originally occurred, as in Gr. χαίρω from an earlier *kharjō.
1657J. Smith Myst. Rhet. 171 Epenthesis is the interposition of a letter or syllable in the midst of a word. 1888King & Cookson Sound & Inflex. Gr. & Lat. 197 In such presents as ϕθείρω, the ει is not to be regarded as the result of Epenthesis. 1954Pei & Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 66 Epenthesis, the interpolation in a word or sound-group of a sound or letter which has no etymological justification for appearing there. 1955Sci. Amer. Aug. 79/2 Sometimes you hear a consonant inserted where the spelling of the word suggests no such sound: fambly for family, chimbley for chimney. The name of this phenomenon, from the Greek, is ‘epenthesis’. 1968Language XLIV. 281 A number of phonetic treatments which are shared by Gathic and Younger Avestan but not by either Sogdian or Ossetic: (1) There is no trace of i- or u-epenthesis. |