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How to use aphesis in a sentence

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That word was created from it later by losing its first syllable through a process called aphesis and had the same sense.
Most etymologists believe it to be the product of aphesis, the process by which we clip unaccented vowel syllables off a word's stem.
The loss of that first a from alackaday results from a process known as aphesis.
One of the elements of grammaticalization, the aphesis, constitutes a proof for the phonetic reduction in progress.
Examples from Classical Literature
This English tendency to aphesis is satirised in a French song of the 14th century, intentionally written in bad French.
But confusion with the article is not necessary in order to bring about aphesis.
Aphesis is the loss of the unaccented first syllable, as in 'baccy and 'later.
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