pleophony Linguistics.
(pliːˈɒfənɪ)
[f. pleo-, pleio- + phony after homophony, etc.]
Vowel duplication; epenthesis of a vowel which harmonizes with that in the preceding syllable. Hence pleoˈphonic a.
| 1949 Archivum Linguisticum I. 165 The East Slavonic languages..present the curious and striking phenomenon of pleophony or double vowelling. 1966 H. Birnbaum in Birnbaum & Puhvel Anc. Indo-Europ. Dial. 162 One such feature is ‘pleophonic’ /ToroT/ as a reflex of P[roto] Sl[avic] /TorT/. Ibid. 167 This change must have preceded in time the /TorT/>/ToroT/modification (‘pleophony’) mentioned above. |