Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪˈpɛn.θə.sɪs/
- Hyphenation: epen‧the‧sis
Noun
epenthesis (countable and uncountable, plural epentheses)
- (phonetics, prosody) The insertion of a phoneme, letter, or syllable into a word, usually to satisfy the phonological constraints of a language or poetic context.
Translations
insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
- Afrikaans: epentese
- Armenian: միջնահավելված (miǰnahavelvac), միջնահավելում (miǰnahavelum)
- Breton: mezkresk m
- Bulgarian: епенте́за f (epentéza)
- Catalan: epèntesi (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 插音 (zh) (chāyīn), 插字 (zh)
- Czech: epenteze f
- Danish: epentese c
- Dutch: epenthese f
- Esperanto: epentezo
- Extremaduran: epéntesi f
- Finnish: epenteesi
- French: épenthèse (fr) f
- Galician: epéntese (gl) f
- German: Epenthesis (de) f, Epenthese (de) f; Fugenelement (de) n, Fugenzeichen n, Fugenlaut (de) m (in case of compounds)
- Greek: επένθεση f (epénthesi)
- Ancient: ἐπένθεσις f (epénthesis)
- Hindi: अपिनिहिति f (apinihiti)
- Hungarian: hangbetoldás, epentézis, betoldódás, hangbetoldódás, (the sound itself) bontóhang
- Indonesian: epentesis (id), swarabakti (id)
- Irish: eipintéis f
- Italian: epentesi (it) f
- Japanese: 音挿入 (おんそうにゅう, onsōnyū)
- Korean: 삽입음 (ko) (sabibeum)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: epentez
- Latin: epenthesis f
- Lithuanian: epentezė f
- Macedonian: епентеза f (epenteza)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: epentese m
- Nynorsk: epentese m
- Occitan: epentèsi f
- Polish: epenteza f
- Portuguese: epêntese (pt) f
- Russian: эпенте́за (ru) f (epentɛ́za)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: епенте́за f
- Roman: epentéza (sh) f
- Spanish: epéntesis (es) f
- Sundanese: swarabakti
- Swedish: epentes (sv) c
- Turkish: türeme (tr)
- Ukrainian: епенте́за f (epentéza)
- Uzbek:
- Cyrillic: эпентеза (uz) (epenteza)
- Roman: epenteza
- Welsh: rhyngosodiad m
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eːpɛnˈteːzɪs/
- Hyphenation: epen‧the‧sis
Noun
epenthesis f (plural epentheses)
- Alternative form of epenthese (chiefly used in older and translated texts)
Vele Nederlandse woorden bevatten een epenthesis om twee zelfstandige naamwoorden te verbinden.- A lot of Dutch words contain an epenthesis to tie two nouns together.