epenthesis

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Middle of 16th century: via Late Latin, from Ancient Greek ἐπένθεσις (epénthesis), from ἐπεντίθημι (epentíthēmi, “to insert”), from ἐπί (epí) + ἐντίθημι (entíthēmi, “to put in”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “to put, place”).

59 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: epentese — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Albanian: epentezë — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Armenian: միջնահավելված (miǰnahavelvac) — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Armenian: միջնահավելում (miǰnahavelum) — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Asturian: epéntesis — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Breton: mezkresk — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Bulgarian: епенте́за (epentéza) — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Catalan: epèntesi — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Chinese Mandarin: 插音 (chāyīn) — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Chinese Mandarin: 插字 — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Czech: epenteze — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Czech: vkládání — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Danish: epentese — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Dutch: epenthese — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Esperanto: epentezo — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Extremaduran: epéntesi — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Finnish: epenteesi — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• French: épenthèse — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Galician: epéntese — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• German: Epenthesis — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• German: Epenthese — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• German: Fugenelement — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• German: Fugenzeichen — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• German: Fugenlaut — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Greek: επένθεση (epénthesi) — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Ancient Greek: ἐπένθεσις (epénthesis) — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Hindi: अपिनिहिति (apinihiti) — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Hungarian: hangbetoldás — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Hungarian: epentézis — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Hungarian: betoldódás — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Hungarian: hangbetoldódás — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Hungarian: bontóhang — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Indonesian: epentesis — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Indonesian: swarabakti — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Irish: eipintéis — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Italian: epentesi — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Japanese: 音挿入 (onsōnyū) — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Korean: 삽입음 (sabibeum) — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Northern Kurdish: epentez — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Latin: epenthesis — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Lithuanian: epentezė — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Macedonian: епентеза (epenteza) — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Norwegian Bokmål: epentese — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Norwegian Nynorsk: epentese — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Occitan: epentèsi — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Persian: میانهشت (miyân-hešt) — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Polish: epenteza — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Portuguese: epêntese — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Russian: эпенте́за (epentɛ́za) — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Serbo-Croatian: епенте́за — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Serbo-Croatian: epentéza — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Spanish: epéntesis — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Sundanese: swarabakti — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Swedish: epentes — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Turkish: türeme — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Ukrainian: епенте́за (epentéza) — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Uzbek: эпентеза (epenteza) — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Uzbek: epenteza — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word
• Welsh: rhyngosodiad — insertion of a phoneme or letter into a word