psilosis
Sign in to savePsilosis () is the sound change in which the Greek language lost its consonant sound during antiquity. The term comes from the Greek psílōsis ("smoothing, thinning out") and is related to the Greek term for smooth breathing (ψιλή psilḗ), the sign for the absence of initial in a word. Dialects that have lost are called psilotic.
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- Rough and smooth breathing signs
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- Eta and heta
- Rough and smooth breathing
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Psilosis () is the sound change in which the Greek language lost its consonant sound during antiquity. The term comes from the Greek psílōsis ("smoothing, thinning out") and is related to the Greek term for smooth breathing (ψιλή psilḗ), the sign for the absence of initial in a word. Dialects that have lost are called psilotic.
The linguistic phenomenon is comparable to that of h-dropping in dialects of Modern English and to the development by which was lost in late Latin.
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