Haplology

Haplology (from gr haplous "simple" and gr lógos " word, speech" ), sometimes jokingly using the procedure on the term itself also Haplogie, refers to the reduction of two identical or similarly worded syllables or phonemes in a syllable or a phoneme.

This historical phonetic process facilitating pronunciation.

Examples of Haplologien

• Sorceress will sorceress.
• Mineralologie is to mineralogy.
• Narcissism is narcissism.
• Morphophonology is often simplified to morphonology.
• Project Mohole is fused from Moho ( rovičić ) - Hole.
• * Ancient Greek amphi - phora is about Amphora.
• Italian domani mattina will domattina ( tomorrow morning ).
• The place name is shortened from Clermont-Ferrand Clermont- Ferrand Mont.

Haplology also plays a role in shaping scientific (Latin or Greek -born ) Names of Living (nomenclature ); eg: thalasso " sea " soma " body" ( about: "Mermaid ") → Thalassoma instead * Thalassosoma ( a wrasse genus ). - For anatomical name for himself sometimes problems arise: a dilator muscle ( " enhancer " of dilatare " expand " ) is in American English by haplology the dilator, but which in classical Latin (from (of English to dilate or. ) diferre ) only " procrastinator " can mean.

Contrary Dittologie.