单词 | svarabhakti |
释义 | svarabhakti /sfahr'ah bahk"tee/; Skt. /sveuh rddeuh buk"ti/, n. Ling. the process of inserting vowel sounds into a consonant cluster, as in a loanword to make it conform to the pattern of the speaker's language and, hence, more easily pronounceable, as in the Italian pronunciation /lahn'tsee ke nek"kaw/ for German Landsknecht /lahnts"knekht'/. Cf. epenthesis. [1875-80; < Skt: vowel segment (inserted in particular environments)] |
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