pleophony

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Etymology

pleo- + -phony

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pleophony (uncountable)

  1. (phonology) The phenomenon by which the Late Proto-Slavic "liquid diphthongs", formed from a vowel followed by a liquid *r or *l, become disyllabic -oro-, -ere- and -olo- reflexes in East Slavic languages.

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