Aphaeresis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The loss of one or more sounds from the beginning of a word, as in till for until.
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  • n. Alternative spelling of apheresis.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Same as apheresis.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • etc. See apheresis, etc.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until'
    • Equivalent
    aphæresis   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    deletion    omission   
    Variant
    apheresis   
     
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