Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
The carrying forward of a final consonant to a following word, as in "a nickname" from Middle English "an ekename".
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Devoicing of a voiced obstruent, either inside a word or as an initial consonant mutation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: Celtic linguistics
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: hard mutation
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Latin prōvectiō (“an advancement”), from prōvect-, past participle stem of prōvehō (“to carry together”), combination of prō- and vehō. By surface analysis, provect + -ion.
