proclitic

proclitic

English

Etymology

pro- +‎ clitic

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪtɪk

Noun

proclitic (plural proclitics)

1. (linguistics) A clitic that joins with the following word phonetically, graphically, or both.

   In dialectal or poetic English, the pronoun the or to can become a proclitic, t'.

Related terms

• clitic
• enclitic

Translations

clitic which joins with the following word

Arabic: مُلْحَق‎ (mulḥaq) Danish: proklitikon n Dutch: procliticum n French: proclitique (fr) m German: proklitisch (adjective), Proklitikon (de) n Japanese: 後接語 (ja) (kōsetsugo) Norwegian: Bokmål: proklitikon n Nynorsk: proklitikon n

Polish: proklityka f Russian: проклити́ческий (ru) (proklitíčeskij) (adjective), прокли́тика (ru) f (proklítika) Serbo-Croatian: проклитика f (proklitika) Swedish: proklitikon n

See also

• Wikipedia article on clitics