That word was created from it later by losing its first syllable through a process called aphesis and had the same sense. |
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Most etymologists believe it to be the product of aphesis, the process by which we clip unaccented vowel syllables off a word's stem. |
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The loss of that first a from alackaday results from a process known as aphesis. |
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One of the elements of grammaticalization, the aphesis, constitutes a proof for the phonetic reduction in progress. |
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