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- adverb Existing or occurring between
vowels .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Most likely, medial *-h- which was probably a velar fricative became weakened at some point intervocalically and after sibilants.
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Latin does not seem to exhibit or inherit a rule where unvoiced stops become voiced stops intervocalically.
Something that bugs me about Indo-European's higher decads 2008
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Most likely, medial *-h- which was probably a velar fricative became weakened at some point intervocalically and after sibilants.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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The third and fourth syllables have a vowel hiatus between them, which Wampanoag seems to be pretty relaxed about--historically, there would have been a 'w' there, but that 'w' often gets lost intervocalically, especially when the preceding vowel is long, as it is here.
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