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midness

noun

Etymology

Synchronically, by surface analysis, mid + -ness; diachronically, known to have an equivalent etymon in Old English and probably never absent from the language since then, albeit rare.

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being mid.

    • Rule (11) formulates that short, non-high vowels that agree in backness, roundness and midness (/a/: [- mid, - back, - round]; 10/: [+ mid, + back, + round]) are lengthened before voiceless fricatives.
    • The curly brackets are necessary because notions such as non-lowness, midness, etc. are not accessible, as such but only implicit in the naming.

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