Psilosis (/saɪˈloʊsɪs/) is the sound change in which Greek lost the consonant sound /h/ during antiquity. The term comes from the Greek ψίλωσιςpsílōsis ("smoothing, thinning out")[1] and is related to the name of the smooth breathing (ψιλή psilḗ), the sign for the absence of initial /h/ in a word. Dialects that have lost /h/ are called psilotic.
The linguistic phenomenon is comparable to that of h-dropping in dialects of Modern English and to the development by which /h/ was lost in late Latin.
^ψίλωσις. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project.
Psilosis (/saɪˈloʊsɪs/) is the sound change in which Greek lost the consonant sound /h/ during antiquity. The term comes from the Greek ψίλωσις psílōsis...
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syllabic m̥ became a, giving ha-. The initial h was sometimes lost by psilosis or Grassmann's law. Cognate forms in other languages preserve the s: for...
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and Walter Frederick Thomas. Walter Sandys Thomas (1853-1899). Died of psilosis in Ceylon. Married to Violet, they had 3 children Walter Sandys Thomas...
BC, the Ancient Greek pitch accent was replaced with a stress accent. Psilosis: loss of rough breathing, /h/. Rough breathing had already been lost in...
Proto-Indo-European initial s- or y-), but some other dialects lost it (psilosis "stripping", "de-aspiration"). Proto-Indo-European *si-sta-mes → Attic...
/h/ was progressively lost from the spoken language (a process known as psilosis), and in those dialects where this had already happened early on in the...
emmi ~ Attic/Ionic ēmi (= εἰμί) "I am" Lesbian Aeolic lost initial h- (psilosis "stripping") from Proto-Indo-European s- or y-. By contrast, Ionic sometimes...
already lost in the Ionic idioms of Asia Minor and the Aeolic of Lesbos (psilosis), later stopped being pronounced in Koine Greek. Incorrect or hypercorrect...
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