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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In philology, the carrying of a terminal letter from a word to the next succeeding one, when it begins with a vowel, as the tone for that one, the tother for that other.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Philol.) A carrying forward, as of a final letter, to a following word.

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  • noun linguistics The carrying forward of a final consonant to a following word, as in "nickname" for "an ekename".

Etymologies

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Latin provectio an advancement.

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