compensatorily lengthen
verbEtymology
Back-formation from compensatory lengthening.
Definitions
To lengthen (a vowel) upon dropping the consonant that had followed it
To lengthen (a vowel) upon dropping the consonant that had followed it; to cause to undergo compensatory lengthening.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for compensatorily lengthen. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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