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schwa deletion

noun

Etymology

From schwa + deletion.

  1. borrowed from dēlētus
  2. suffixed as deletion — “delete + ion”
  3. compounded as schwa deletion — “schwa + deletion”

Definitions

  1. The phenomenon of the dropping of the orthographic inherent vowel in speech, in…

    The phenomenon of the dropping of the orthographic inherent vowel in speech, in Indo-Aryan languages that use abugidas.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for schwa deletion. 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