 | James Challis Parsons - 1891 - 188 sider
...is called ELISION. . 8. Elision, in its strict sense, is the partial or entire loss of a vowel sound at the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel; as, "th' earth." In this way, more syllables can be brought into a foot than by the ordinary pronunciation.... | |
 | William Watson Goodwin - 1892 - 504 sider
...In the Homeric verse a long vowel or a diphthong in the thesis (not in the arsis) is often shortened at the end of a word when the next word begins with a vowel. This sometimes occurs in the middle of a word. Eg ш 7Г07Г01, | r¡ fuíXa I 8^ fifTf\ßov\cv\<rav... | |
 | Frank Cole Babbitt - 1902 - 460 sider
...prepositions, and is nearly confined to poetry. ELISION 44. Elision is the cutting off of a short vowel at the end of a word when the next word begins with a vowel. In place of the missing vowel an apostrophe (') is written: thus етг' efíoí in my power, for e?rl... | |
 | John Sampson - 1903 - 86 sider
...q quick is pronounced wik, as elsewhere. r is trilled (r), though imperfectly, before a vowel, and at the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel and follows without pause. It is untrilled (a), before a consonant, and at the end of a word. Its sound... | |
 | Frederick Howard Collins - 1905 - 434 sider
...e into ,' ; fcm. nouns ending in a change it to e. The apostrophe is frequently used for the vowel at the end of a word when the next word begins with a vowel ; a space is put between the apostrophe and the next word. Division of words as in French ; abbr. It.... | |
 | Frederick Howard Collins - 1912 - 420 sider
...e into < ; fem. nouns ending in « change it to 2. The apostrophe is frequently used for the vowel at the end of a word when the next word begins with a vowel ; a space is put between the apostrophe and the next word. Division of words as in French ; abbr. It.... | |
 | James Turney Allen - 1917 - 408 sider
...followed by an enclitic : о -ye 6eos. 12. ELISION. a) Elision is the cutting off of a short vowel at the end of a word when the next word begins with a vowel: ó 8' fjXios. The apostrophe (') marks the omission, except in compound»: Si-opvcraoutn. (for Sia).... | |
 | Francis M. Connell - 1919 - 216 sider
...evru%éoiv, poшv, таyées, ^о'oç, rf>ÎPao',ELISION 8. Mision is the dropping of a short vowel at the end of a word when the next word begins with a vowel. Thus, TOUT' ëcrTiv for TOVTO HO-rIV, ¿ф' r//ílv for ¿тг1 77/¿t>/. Elision is often neglected,... | |
 | Herbert Weir Smyth - 1920 - 810 sider
...(26 D.). » " X Doric (vif!» come. GREEK CRAM. — 3 MOVABLE CONSONANTS 134. Movable N may be added at the end of a word when the next word begins with a vowel. Movable v may be annexed to words ending in -vi ; to the third person singular in -t ; and to tori... | |
 | Johannes Carl Andersen - 1928 - 246 sider
...contracted and abbreviated thus'." A few lines above he has said that Milton "often cuts off the vowel at the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel ; though he does not like the Greeks wholly drop the vowel, but still retains it in writing like the... | |
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Hurl'd often cuts off the vowel at the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel; though he does not like the Greeks wholly drop the vowel, but lull retains it in writing like the Latins. 
