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historic rhyme

noun

Etymology

From historic + rhyme.

  1. derived from *h₂rey-✻ — “to arrange; to count”
  2. derived from *rīm✻ — “number, order, sequence, series, row of identical things”
  3. derived from *srew-✻ — “to flow; a stream”
  4. derived from ῥῠθμός — “measured motion, rhythm; regular, repeating motion, vibration”
  5. derived from rhythmus — “rhythm”
  6. derived from rime
  7. inherited from rim
  8. compounded as historic rhyme — “historic + rhyme”

Definitions

  1. Rhymes that were full rhymes in an older stage of the language, but have since become eye…

    Rhymes that were full rhymes in an older stage of the language, but have since become eye rhymes owing to sound changes. Historic rhymes are used by historical linguists to reconstruct the phonology of old languages.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for historic rhyme. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA