prerhotic
adjEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English rhotacismbf. English rhotic English prerhotic From pre- + rhotic.
- derived from rhotic English prerhotic From pre- + rhotic
- derived from pre- English pre- English rhotacismbf
Definitions
Occurring before the letter ⟨r⟩ or before any one of the sounds that letter tends to…
Occurring before the letter ⟨r⟩ or before any one of the sounds that letter tends to represent (e.g., [r], [ɽ], [ɹ], [ɻ], [ʀ], [ʁ], etc.).
- While /ɛ/ and /ɪ/ lost their distinctiveness in pre-rhotic, tautosyllabic positions, the basic distinction back ~ front was maintained in forms such as the following: fern [fɛɹn], General IrE [fərn]; turn [tʌɹn], General IrE [tərn].
- 1993 Summer, Ralph H. Emerson, “The Distribution of Eighteenth-Century Prerhotic O-Phonemes in Walker’s Critical Pronouncing Dictionary” in American Speech LXVIII, № 2, pages 115–138
- We turn now to the prerhotic context in (15)–(17).
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for prerhotic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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