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Dissimilation

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Dissimilation, in the context of phonology, is a phenomenon whereby similar consonant sounds in a word have a tendency to become different over time, so as to ease pronunciation.

[edit] Examples

  • Latin
    • medidies ("noon", "middle of the day") gradually changed into meridies.
    • The suffix -alis also switched to -aris when the root word contained an /l/.
  • German
    • What is written "chs" and pronounced [ks] in modern German was originally a sequence of two fricatives (/xs/) that dissimilated. The original pronunciation is found in derived words: sechs ("six") is [zɛks], but sechzehn ("sixteen") is [zɛçtseːn]
  • Russian
    • феврарь ("february") gradually changed into февраль.
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