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English
Adjective
praevocalic (not comparable)
- Rare spelling of prevocalic.
- 1905: Etsko Kruisinga, A Grammar of the Dialect of West Somerset, pages 94⁽¹⁾ and 95⁽²⁾
- ⁽¹⁾ Transposition of praevocalic r is very common, see § 66.
- ⁽²⁾ Postvocalic r has become praevocalic in urn, birthday.
- 1909: William Rennie, The Acharnians of Aristophanes, pages 220⁽¹⁾ and 224⁽²⁾
- ⁽¹⁾ The close pronunciation of praevocalic ε in Boeotian would give ἄνθῐα, just as the Attic θεός becomes Boeotian and Laconian θῐός.
- ⁽²⁾ Praevocalic ε is represented by Boeotian ῐ.
- 1952: Mildred Katharine Pope, From Latin to Modern French, page 570 (rev. ed.)
- v, 95, 98, 105; sources in O.F. I: Latin kṷ qu, interv. 328–330; G.R. 𝛃, cf. β; L.L. ṷ, initial after d and n, 374; O.F. glide w, 239, 267; in Mid. Fr. f, final praevocalic, 611.