搜尋結果
dissimilate
- IPA[dɪˈsɪmɪleɪt]
英式
- change (a sound or sounds in a word) to another when the word originally had identical sounds near each other (e.g. in taper, which derives from papyrus, the p is dissimilated to t).;(of a sound) undergo the process of dissimilation
verb: dissimilate, 3rd person present: dissimilates, gerund or present participle: dissimilating, past tense: dissimilated, past participle: dissimilated
- 釋義
動詞
- 1. change (a sound or sounds in a word) to another when the word originally had identical sounds near each other (e.g. in taper, which derives from papyrus, the p is dissimilated to t).
- ▪ (of a sound) undergo the process of dissimilation the first ‘r’ dissimilates to ‘l’
- 更多解釋
- IPA[dəˈsiməˌlāt]
美式
- change (a sound in a word) in order to be unlike the sounds near it: in “pilgrim,” from Latin “peregrinus,” the first “r” is dissimilated to “l.”
Oxford American Dictionary