Haplologize

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To undergo haplology. intransitive

    "In neither instance is more than one possessive s manifested (*McMug's's); the predicted two suffixes ''haplologize to a single instance of s."

  2. 2
    To shorten by haplology. transitive

    "A number of IE languages show a tendency to haplologize sequences of the type *-sVs- to *-s-,"

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"In neither instance is more than one possessive s manifested (*McMug's's); the predicted two suffixes ''haplologize to a single instance of s."

Etymology

From haplology + -ize.

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