anaptyxis

anaptyxis

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀνάπτυξις (anáptuxis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌænəpˈtɪksɪs/
• Hyphenation: an‧ap‧tyx‧is

Noun

anaptyxis (countable and uncountable, plural anaptyxes)

1. (phonetics) The epenthesis (insertion) of a vowel; svarabhakti: for example, the middle ‘-a-’ in thataway, or use of infixes -i- and -o- in coining English words on classical roots.

Synonyms

• svarabhakti

Antonyms

• excrescence

Hypernyms

• epenthesis

Derived terms

• anaptyctic

Translations

epenthesis of a vowel

Catalan: anaptixi f Finnish: anaptyksis French: anaptyxe (fr) f Galician: anaptixe (gl) f

German: Sprossvokal (de) m, Sproßvokal (de) m, Anaptyxe (de) f, Anaptyxis (de) f Occitan: anaptixi f Portuguese: anaptixe (pt) f

See also

• tmesis
• paragoge
• interconsonantal