Haplology
Haplology (from ancient Greek ἁπλοῦς haploũs , German 'simple' , and λόγος lógos , German 'word, speech' ) or syllable stratification , sometimes jokingly using the process on the term itself, also haplogy , describes the reduction of two identical or similar syllables or phonemes to a syllable or a phoneme.
This historical phonetic process makes pronunciation easier. This reduction or reduction does not count as misspelling .
Examples of haplologies
- Challenger instead of challenger and similar feminine formations.
- The sorceress becomes the sorceress .
- the mathematical expression mononome becomes monomial .
- Mineralology becomes mineralogy .
- Narcissism turns into narcissism .
- Tragicomedy (from tragiko- and comedy )
- Morphophonology is often simplified to morphonology .
- Mohole is fused from Moho (rovičić) -Hole .
- Ancient Greek amphí-phorā becomes amphórā ( amphora ).
- Hungarian azt hisszem becomes asszem . (I believe that ...)
- Italian domani mattina becomes domattina (tomorrow morning).
- The place name Clermont-Ferrand is shortened from Clermont-Montferrand .
Haplology also plays a role in the coining of scientific names of organisms (nomenclature), which show a word stem derived from Latin or Greek , such as: thalasso- ("sea [it] -") + soma ("body") → Thalassoma (like: "mermaid") instead of thalassosoma .
When naming body parts within the framework of the nomenclature (anatomy) , problems sometimes arise, such as with the type of muscle of the dilators ( enlargers , extensions), derived from the Latin dilatare (to expand). In American English , haplology turns the word dilator into dilator (derived from English to dilate + -or ). In classical Latin this word can only mean “ hesitant” or “procrastinator” (to diferre “to delay”).
Related terms
- Dittology : doubling of syllables and thus the opposite of haplology
- Dittography : Opposite of haplography , the haplology-like (also unintentional) omission of one of two identically written successive elements when writing
literature
- Willi Mayerthaler: Studies on theoretical and French morphology. Reduplication, echo words, morphological naturalness, haplology, productivity, rule telescoping, paradigmatic compensation . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1977, ISBN 3-484-10260-8 (on haplology: Chapter Reduplication Structures and Haplology , pp. 53-78).
- Frans Plank: Morphological (Ir-) Regularities. Aspects of word structure theory. Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen 1981, ISBN 3-87808-813-2 (on haplology: Chapter Horror Aequi , pp. 149–153).
