Middle of 16th century: viaLate Latin, fromAncient Greekἐπένθεσις(epénthesis), fromἐπεντίθημι(epentíthēmi,“I insert”), fromἐπί(epí) +ἐντίθημι(entíthēmi,“I put in”), fromἐν(en,“in”) +τίθημι(títhēmi,“I put, place”).
- IPA(key): /ɪˈpɛn.θə.sɪs/
- Hyphenation:epen‧the‧sis
epenthesis (countable anduncountable,pluralepentheses)
- (phonetics, prosody) Theinsertion of aphoneme,letter, orsyllable into aword, usually to satisfy thephonological constraints of a language or poetic context.
insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
- Afrikaans:epentese
- Albanian:epentezë f
- Armenian:միջնահավելված(miǰnahavelvac),միջնահավելում(miǰnahavelum)
- Breton:mezkresk m
- Bulgarian:епенте́за f(epentéza)
- Catalan:epèntesi (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:插音 (zh)(chāyīn),插字 (zh)
- Czech:epenteze f,vkládání n
- Danish:epentese c
- Dutch:epenthese f
- Esperanto:epentezo
- Extremaduran:epéntesi f
- Finnish:epenteesi
- French:épenthèse (fr) f
- Galician:epéntese (gl) f
- German:Epenthesis (de) f,Epenthese (de) f;Fugenelement (de) n,Fugenzeichen n,Fugenlaut (de) m(in case of compounds)
- Greek:επένθεση (el) f(epénthesi)
- Ancient:ἐπένθεσις f(epénthesis)
- Hindi:अपिनिहिति f(apinihiti)
- Hungarian:hangbetoldás,epentézis,betoldódás,hangbetoldódás,(the sound itself)bontóhang
- Indonesian:epentesis (id),swarabakti (id)
- Irish:eipintéis f
- Italian:epentesi (it) f
- Japanese:音挿入(おんそうにゅう, onsōnyū)
- Korean:삽입음 (ko)(sabibeum)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish:epentez
- Latin:epenthesis f
- Lithuanian:epentezė f
- Macedonian:епентеза f(epenteza)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:epentese m
- Nynorsk:epentese m
- Occitan:epentèsi f
- Persian:میانهشت(miyân-hešt)
- Polish:epenteza f
- Portuguese:epêntese (pt) f
- Russian:эпенте́за (ru) f(epentɛ́za)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:епенте́за f
- Roman:epentéza (sh) f
- Spanish:epéntesis (es) f
- Sundanese:swarabakti
- Swedish:epentes (sv) c
- Turkish:türeme (tr)
- Ukrainian:епенте́за f(epentéza)
- Uzbek:
- Cyrillic:эпентеза (uz)(epenteza)
- Roman:epenteza
- Welsh:rhyngosodiad m
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FromLatinepenthesis, fromAncient Greekἐπένθεσις(epénthesis), fromἐπεντίθημι(epentíthēmi,“I insert”).
- IPA(key): /eːpɛnˈteːzɪs/
- Hyphenation:epen‧the‧sis
epenthesis f (pluralepentheses,nodiminutive)
- alternative form ofepenthese(chiefly used in older and translated texts)
Vele Nederlandse woorden bevatten eenepenthesis om twee zelfstandige naamwoorden te verbinden.- A lot of Dutch words contain an epenthesis to tie two nouns together.
