epenthesis in English

noun
1
the insertion of a sound or letter within a word, e.g., the b in thimble.
This epenthesis often shows up even when Sicilians speak Italian.

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1. Anaptyxis is a hyponym of epenthesis

2. French: ·(phonetics) Anaptyxis, svarabhakti (epenthesis of a vowel)

3. Anaptyxis (Noun) epenthesis of a vowel – insertion of a vowel

4. ‘Prothesis and Anaptyxis are often called simply ‘vowel’ or ‘schwa epenthesis’.’

5. Anaptyxis or vowel → epenthesis is the insertion of a → vowel between two consonants

6. Anaptyxis or vowel epenthesis is the insertion of a vowel between two consonants.

7. Noun. Anaptyxis ( countable and uncountable, plural anaptyxes ) ( phonetics) The epenthesis (insertion) of a vowel

8. As nouns the difference between Anaptyxis and epenthesis is that Anaptyxis is (phonetics) epenthesis of a vowel – insertion of a vowel for example, the middle ‘(-a-)’ in (thataway), or use of infixes in coining english words on classical roots while epenthesis is (phoneticsprosody) the insertion of a phoneme, letter, or syllable into a word, usually

9. Furthermore, languages rely on morphophonemic processes such as glide formation, vowel deletion, vowel Coalescence and consonant epenthesis to …

10. This, by an Aphaeresis of tau and an epenthesis of omicron in two places, may be identified with echonoe, and signifies