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Definitions of dissimilate in various dictionaries:
verb - become dissimilar by changing the sound qualities
verb - make dissimilar
verb - become dissimilar or less similar
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Change (a sound or sounds in a word) to another when the word originally had identical sounds near each other (e.g. in taper, which derives from papyrus, the p is dissimilated to t). |
change (a sound or sounds in a word) to another when the word originally had identical sounds near each other (e.g. in itaperi, which derives from ipapyrusi, the ipi is dissimilated to iti ). |
become dissimilar or less similar |
make dissimilar cause to become less similar |
become dissimilar by changing the sound qualities |
To make unlike or dissimilar. |
Linguistics To cause to undergo dissimilation. |
To become unlike or dissimilar. |
Linguistics To undergo dissimilation. |
Dissimilate might refer to |
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In phonology, particularly within historical linguistics, Dissimilation is a phenomenon whereby similar consonants or vowels in a word become less similar. For example, when a /r/ sound occurs before another in the middle of a word in rhotic dialects of English, the first tends to drop out, as in "beserk" for berserk, "supprise" for surprise, "paticular" for particular, and "govenor" for governor – this does not affect the pronunciation of government, which has only one /r/, but English government tends to be pronounced "goverment", dropping out the first n. * An example where a relatively old case of phonetic dissimilation has been artificially undone in the spelling is English colonel, whose standard pronunciation is /ˈkɝnəl/ (with the r sound) in North-American English, or /ˈkɜːnəl/ in RP. It was formerly spelt coronel and is a borrowing from French coronnel, which arose as a result of dissimilation from Italian colonnello. |