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/dɪsˌɪmɪlˈeɪʃən/
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NOUN
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a linguistic process by which one of two similar sounds in a word becomes less like the other
the Old French MARBRE became the English MARBLE by dissimilation - breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy
How To Use dissimilation In A Sentence
- This process is called dissimilation, essentially getting rid of the similar parts. Podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history
- A number of occupative names have lost the last syllable by dissimilation, e.g. Pepper for pepperer, Armour for armourer. The Romance of Names
- The freedom dissimilation refers to the situation that people often can not achieve the ideal freedom and have not the free condition when they pursue freedom.
- Like Martin I too thought the different behaviour of your examples ‘hospital’ ‘orbital’ and ‘digital’ might be due to dissimilation, but the parallel with Italian ospedale vs orbitale and digitale, made me think it might be more likely to be because ‘hospital’ is of greater antiquity and familiarity than the other two, at least in their current main senses. Hospital ~ orbital ~ digital | Linguism | Language Blog
- To call this process 'dissimilation' requires you to first describe in scientific terms what the originally common feature might have been between dental plosives and high vowels, otherwise it cannot be classified as dissimilatory in nature. Japanese dialect mirrors suspected PIE development of sibilantization between two dental stops
- Among phonetic changes which occur with more or less regularity are those called aphesis, epenthesis, epithesis, assimilation, dissimilation, and metathesis, convenient terms which are less learned than they appear. The Romance of Names
- It is a machine after all by person absorb, be still a person by machine dissimilation?
- There was no principle shift in glucose dissimilation during cell growth with different carbon substrates.
- By "dissimilation" I was naturally referring to the IE change, not the Japanese to clarify, I thought you might have had an argument for the lost vowel to have been a close one. Japanese dialect mirrors suspected PIE development of sibilantization between two dental stops
- As a mechanism it isn't without problems, I admit: typically (in the examples I've seen, anyway) dissimilation leads to the substitution of another phoneme, not to the insertion of one (or the introduction of a new allophone). Japanese dialect mirrors suspected PIE development of sibilantization between two dental stops
