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(n.) The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; - the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Aphesis'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​a/aphesis.html. 1828.
 
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