Associations to the word «Aphaeresis»

Wiktionary

APHAERESIS, noun. (UK) (Canadian) Alternative spelling of apheresis

Dictionary definition

APHAERESIS, noun. (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until'.

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