Procope

In linguistics, the term prokope ( Greek  προκοπή “progression”) refers to the elimination ( elision ) of one or more speech sounds at the beginning of a word that occurs in the course of a speech or sound change . A well-known example is the origin of the German word bishop from the Latin episcopus .

An apheresis currently observed in some German- speaking regions is the elimination of “ he- ” or “ hi- ” in the words “ out ” or “ out ”, which leads to “ naus ” in southern German-speaking regions and “ out ” in north-western Germany coincide. In general, it is mostly realized in spoken colloquial language , while apart from verbatim speech it does not occur in written German or in the somewhat more formal standard German .

The elision of individual sounds or syllables in general, i.e. not only in the context of a sound change, but in particular as a stylistic device or poetic instrument, is called apheresis .

See also

• Apokope (Linguistics)
• Syncope (linguistics)

literature

• Helmut Glück (Ed.), With the collaboration of Friederike Schmöe : Metzler Lexikon Sprache. 3rd, revised edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2005, ISBN 3-476-02056-8 , p. 515.