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- noun
Epenthesis of a vowel, as in thefootball chant Engerland forEngland .
Etymologies
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From Sanskrit.
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The latter case is specifically called anaptyxis or sometimes svarabhakti, which is a Sanskrit word specifically for the insertion of a vowel after the letter l or r before another consonant.
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Synonym of anaptyxis.
June 12, 2008