prothesis
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Noun — The addition of phonemes to the start of a word without altering its morphological structure, for example the Spanish word esfera, derived via Latin from Greek sphaera (“sphere”); without prothesis it would have become *sfera.
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Etymology
From Late Latin prothesis, prosthesis, alteration (dropping the ‘s’) from Ancient Greek πρόσθεσις (prósthesis, “addition, augmentation”), (English prosthesis) from προστίθημι (prostíthēmi, “to add”), from πρός (prós, “towards”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “to place”), from Proto-Indo-European *próti, *préti + *dʰédʰeh₁- (“to be...
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