Etymology

preaspiration

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Today it means: A period of voiceless breathing that precedes some consonants in some languages—a sort of mirror-image of aspiration. Full definition →

English aspiration ← Middle English pre- ← Latin prae-
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*per-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*preh₂-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*préh₂i?
  4. Proto-Italic*prai
  5. Proto-Italic*prai-
  6. Latinprae-
  7. Middle Englishpre-
  8. Englishpre-
  9. Englishaspire
  10. Englishaspiration
  11. English todaypreaspiration

From pre- + aspiration.

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