Etymology

mytacism

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Today it means: A speech disorder manifesting as an abnormal repetition of the sound /m/ or replacement of consonants with m-like sounds. Full definition →

Ancient Greek μυτακισμός
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  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromμυτακισμός“fondness of the letter mu”
  2. English todaymytacism

From Ancient Greek μυτακισμός (mutakismós, “fondness of the letter mu”). By surface analysis from mu (Greek letter representing /m/) + -tacism.

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