Synaeresis

With contraction ( " contract " from the Latin contra here = → " contraction " ) is the contraction (contraction ) of two different or identical sounds ( and ) refers to a sound (), where the characteristics of, and unite in most cases.

Alternative names are synizesis, syneresis ( accent on the first e) or synaeresis ( emphasis on the ä ), the latter two from the Greek συναίρεσις = " contraction "; the opposite word for this is diaeresis.

• 2.1 Examples

Importance

Contraction means the phonetic contraction of two words to form a new without changing the meaning. Often this results from frequent use of the phrase or fast speech ( cf. Allegro manner of speaking). Colloquially, the result of a contraction is sometimes called melting word in German. The results are orthographically permissible.

Examples

• German: for the -> for; with the -> mit'm
• English: do not - > do not
• French: à le - > au ( like the / to )

Importance in the Gräzistik

A more specific meaning is assigned contraction - often then with the concept name syneresis - especially in the Gräzistik: there is thus the two vowels referred to a syllable, often by an intervening consonant is eliminated. Most such result is a diphthong. In ancient Greek, occur numerous contracting verbs, so-called ( Verba contracta ). Their forms are show as unkontrahiert in the dictionaries while writing often contracted in the river text. The contraction is possible in most all forms of conjugation.

If syneresis in ostentatious ( challenging ) break with language conventions on, it is a rhetorical figure - namely a Metaplasmus.

Examples

• τιμάω -> τιμῶ ( I honor )

• ποιέομαι -> ποιοῦμαι (I make for me)

Such syneresis can be observed in rapid speech and Silbenverschlucken also in German, but without being written language justified:

• Ideal ( standard language: [ ideʔa ː l] or [ idea ː l] ) contracted to [ IDEA ː l] or [ Idja ː l]