The difference between Aphesis and Prothesis
When used as nouns, aphesis means the loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word, whereas prothesis means the prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in spanish from latin (expected form would be *).
check bellow for the other definitions of Aphesis and Prothesis
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Aphesis as a noun (linguistics, prosody):
The loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word.
Examples:
"The word "scarp" is derived from "escarp" by aphesis."
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Prothesis as a noun (phonology):
The prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in Spanish from Latin (expected form would be *).
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Prothesis as a noun:
a type of preparatory ceremony, part of the Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church