Aphaeresis

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  aphaeresis \a*phaer"e*sis\, Aphaeresis \A*ph[ae]r"e*sis\(?;
     277), n. [L.]
     Same as {Apheresis}.
     [1913 Webster] aphaeretic

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  aphaeresis
       n : (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in
           `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' [syn: {apheresis}]