haplologize

English

Etymology

From haplology +‎ -ize.

Verb

haplologize (third-person singular simple present haplologizes, present participle haplologizing, simple past and past participle haplologized)

1. (intransitive) To undergo haplology.
   • 2000, Morphologie / Morphology, 1. Halbband, →ISBN, page 395:

     In neither instance is more than one possessive s manifested (*McMug's's); the predicted two suffixes haplologize to a single instance of s.

   • 2007, Zheng Xu, Inflectional Morphology in Optimality Theory, →ISBN, page 17:

     De Lacy admits that "[coalescence] does not make any prediction about the preservation of features when two affixes haplologize."

2. (transitive) To shorten by haplology.
   • 1999, Compositiones indogermanicae: in memoriam Jochem Schindler (Heiner Eichner, Hans Christian Luschützky, Velizar Sadovski):

     A number of IE languages show a tendency to haplologize sequences of the type *-sVs- to *-s-,

   • 2013, Lyle Campbell, Historical Linguistics, →ISBN, page 34:

     For example, if the word haplology were to undergo haplology (were to be haplologized), it would reduce the sequence lolo to lo, haplology > haplogy.