English Explanatory Dictionary

schwa deletion

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The phenomenon of the dropping of the orthographic inherent vowel in speech, in Indo-Aryan languages that use abugidas.

Word forms

schwa deletion

Etymology

From schwa + deletion.

Synonyms

schwa dropping
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