Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature of epenthesis; inserted in the middle of a word.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Gram.) Inserted in the body of a word.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective linguistics Of or pertaining to
epenthesis ; having been inserted into aword , as an epentheticphoneme orsyllable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or pertaining to epenthesis
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Examples
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Do they just ignore it as some kind of epenthetic vowel?
Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan 2009
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Kloekhorst continues to argue that this can never be a true /a/ while it is often reconstructed as such, but rahter an epenthetic vowel that was phonetically [ə] or [ɐ].
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All you're doing now is offering ad hoc solutions here and there to legitimize an epenthetic vowel that I've already disproved.
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It can't be of the same phonetic value as the i/e epenthetic vowel either because it's never written with e-.
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Kessar has an epenthetic vowel in a position that is phonetically viable, also from a phonotactic point of view in Indo-European.
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Though I agree that the 'wt' environment is odd, or even impossible, just because the epenthetic vowel is to be dismissed there, I see no reason why it should be dismissed all together also in kessar.
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And even then you'd sort of want to insert an *a like the epenthetic a you have just described.
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Kloekhorst proposes three types of epenthetic vowels.
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It is not an epenthetic vowel that developed naturally, but looking at the way it behaves, I'm quite sure that the phonetic value of the vowel in between w and d should have the same phonetic value as the type 2 epenthetic vowel.
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Well the epenthetic vowel might not even be the most correct name for it, since it clearly is a phoneme.
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