proclitic

English

Etymology

pro- +‎ clitic

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɪtɪk

Noun

proclitic (plural proclitics)

(linguistics) A clitic that joins with the following word phonetically, graphically, or both.
In dialectal or poetic English, the pronoun the or to can become a proclitic, t'.

Related terms

Translations

clitic which joins with the following word

Arabic: مُلْحَق‎ (mulḥaq)
Danish: proklitikon n
Dutch: procliticum n
French: proclitique (fr) m
German: proklitisch (adjective), Proklitikon (de) n
Japanese: 後接語 (ja) (kōsetsugo)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: proklitikon n

Nynorsk: proklitikon n

Polish: proklityka f
Russian: проклити́ческий (ru) (proklitíčeskij) (adjective), прокли́тика (ru) f (proklítika)
Serbo-Croatian: проклитика f (proklitika)
Swedish: proklitikon n

See also

Wikipedia article on clitics

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