VeeshanVault

An acquaintance of mine who was pursuing a PhD in philology once told me the technical term for the erroneus insertion of an additional vowel sound in a word (eg athlete pronounced athalete)...Anyone here happen to know the term? I can only recall that it sounded distinctly nordic seemed finnish to me for some reason..

I believe it was phonetically something like svaada-va-hok-tee but I cannot, for the life of me find reference to it...:/...

Why is it important?...Because not knowing it is killin' me...

Nm the word was: svarabhakati I had a couple in my own pronunciation of it...

ok damnit now the linguists are doing it themselves...
lol I have found 2 spellings from different linguists...

svarabhakti vowel
[Subentry of vowel1]

Fr voyelle anaptyctique, voyelle d'appui, voyelle épenthétique, voyelle parasite

Synonym(s): anaptyctic vowel, epenthetic vowel, parasitic vowel


Related term: prothesis

Domain: Phonology

Source(s): ELL: p.5177, Nash 1968: p.265 (vowel insertion), Trask 1996: p.24


I'm gonna go fuck someone up at scrabble now!

It's got 11 letters. =\

laneela wrote:It's got 11 letters. =\

Yes but surely there's an independent root there somewhere!...

I've always heard the term epenthesis used for that, but I am no linguist.

-Aluminium

You may be a cunning linguist....but I'm a Master Debater

Narmgarf

Only a master of evil, Narm

- Gung

Burke wrote:I've always heard the term epenthesis used for that, but I am no linguist.

-Aluminium

yerp see list of synonyms...

the friend in question was doing his PhD in Old English at Yale/Oxford...seems like the Old English folks tend to use the word svarabhakti more