iotacism
nounEtymology
From Ancient Greek ἰωτακισμός (iōtakismós), by surface analysis from iota + -cism (phenomenon related to a specific phoneme).
- borrowed from ἰωτακισμός
Definitions
Pronunciation of another vowel or diphthong as [i], or a vowel shift resulting in such…
Pronunciation of another vowel or diphthong as [i], or a vowel shift resulting in such pronunciation, especially in Greek.
A misspelling resulting from such pronunciation.
The neighborhood
- neighbori-mutation
- neighborlambdacism
- neighborrhotacism
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for iotacism. 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