haplologise

English

Verb

haplologise (third-person singular simple present haplologises, present participle haplologising, simple past and past participle haplologised)

1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of haplologize.
   • 1967, Indian Antiquary, page 12:

     […] where the SK has obviously misanalysed a "krtam nah" (haplologised by the reciters into "krta nah") and changed it into "karta nah" […]

   • 1994, Andrew K. Pawley, Malcolm D. Ross, Austronesian Terminolgies: Continuity and Change, page 275:

     Since in some cases (see (51) below) only a haplologised form is reconstructable on the basis of the Oceanic evidence, I have opted for positing both full and haplologised forms for Proto-Oceanic where both types of witness are found.

   • 1996, Christel Stolz, Spatial Dimensions and Orientation of Objects in Yucatec Maya:

     […] and are therefore haplologised.

   • 2014, Antonio Fábregas, “Phrasal Spell Out: An Argument From Haplology”, in Linguistic Analysis:

     […] where both affixes appear in a sequence and neither one haplologises the other.

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