Haplology
Haplology is, in spoken language, the elision of an entire syllable or a part of it through dissimilation. The phenomenon was identified by American philologist Maurice Bloomfield in the 20th century. Linguists sometimes jokingly refer to the phenomenon as "haplogy", an autology. As a general rule, haplology occurs in English adverbs of adjectives ending in "le", for example gentlely → gently; ablely → ably.
Examples
- Basque: sagarrardo → sagardo
- German: Zaubererin → Zauberin ; this is a productive pattern applied to other words ending in -erer.
- Dutch: narcissisme → narcisme
- French: fémininité → féminité
- English:
- * Old English Engla land → Engle lond → England
- * Old English cyning → English king
- *morphophonology → morphonology
- * conservativism → conservatism
- * mononomial → monomial
- * urine analysis → urinalysis
- * Colloquial :
- **library → #libry
- ** particularly → #particuly
- ** probably → #probly
- ** February → #Febury, #Febuary or #Febry
- ** representative → #representive
- ** authoritative → #authoritive
- ** deteriorate → #deteriate
- Latin:
- * nutritrix → nutrix
- * idololatria → idolatria
- Biological Latin:
- * Hamamelididae
- * Nycterididae → Nycteridae
- * Anomalocarididae
- Homeric Greek:
- * →
- * →
- Arabic:
- * →
- * →
- Spanish: impudicicia → impudicia
- Portuguese:
- * idadoso → idoso
- * femininismo → feminismo
- * Colloquially in sequences like campo pequeno pronounced like "campequeno" or faculdade de letras pronounced like "faculdadletras".
- Italian:
- * tragico-comico → tragicomico
- * domani mattina → ''domattina''
Reduplication