Associations to the word «Prothesis»

Wiktionary

PROTHESIS, noun. (linguistics) The prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in nother, from other (“a whole nother thing”), or Spanish esfera from Latin sphaera.
PROTHESIS, noun. A type of preparatory ceremony, part of the Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church

Wise words

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.
Dan Quayle