demorify
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]demorify (third-person singular simple present demorifies, present participle demorifying, simple past and past participle demorified)
- (phonology) To make nonmoraic; to remove a mora from something.
- 2011, Mirco Ghini, Asymmetries in the Phonology of Miogliola, page 134:
- If the moraic trochee is maintained, it is necessary to say that refooting applies once footing has demorified the lengthening coda consonants.