In dialectal or poetic English, the article the or preposition to can become the proclitic t'.
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Proclitic
//pɹoʊˈklɪt.ɪk//
Synonyms for "proclitic" (31 found)
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2 entriesTranslations
25 translations across 22 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مُلْحَق noun (clitic which joins with the following word)
Asturian
1 entries- proclíticu noun (clitic which joins with the following word)
Catalan
1 entries- proclític noun (clitic which joins with the following word)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 前附語素 /前附语素 noun (clitic which joins with the following word)
Czech
1 entries- proklitikon noun (clitic which joins with the following word)
Danish
1 entries- proklitikon noun (clitic which joins with the following word)
Dutch
1 entries- procliticum noun (clitic which joins with the following word)
French
1 entries- proclitique noun (clitic which joins with the following word)
German
2 entries- Proklitikon noun (clitic which joins with the following word)
- proklitisch noun (clitic which joins with the following word)
Greek
1 entries- προκλιτικό noun (clitic which joins with the following word)
Irish
1 entries- réamhchlaonán noun (clitic which joins with the following word)
Italian
1 entries- proclitico noun (clitic which joins with the following word)
Japanese
1 entries- 後接語 noun (clitic which joins with the following word)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- proklitikon noun (clitic which joins with the following word)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- proklitikon noun (clitic which joins with the following word)
Polish
1 entries- proklityka noun (clitic which joins with the following word)
Russian
2 entries- прокли́тика noun (clitic which joins with the following word)
- проклити́ческий noun (clitic which joins with the following word)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- проклитика noun (clitic which joins with the following word)
Sicilian
1 entries- pruclìticu noun (clitic which joins with the following word)
Spanish
1 entries- proclítico noun (clitic which joins with the following word)
Swedish
1 entries- proklitikon noun (clitic which joins with the following word)
Welsh
2 entries- gogwyddair proclitig noun (clitic which joins with the following word)
- proclitig noun (clitic which joins with the following word)
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