Affection (linguistics)
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Affection (linguistics)
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Affection, in the linguistics of the Celtic languages, is the change in the quality of a vowel under the influence of the vowel of the following final syllable. It is a type of anticipatory assimilation at a distance. The vowel that triggers the change was later normally lost. Some grammatical suffixes cause i-affection. In Welsh, gair "word" and -iadur "device suffix" yield geiriadur "dictionary", with -ai- in gair becoming -ei-. The two main types of affection are a-affection and i-affection.
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Vowel sound change in Celtic languages
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2022-10-24T17:26:09Z
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