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Anaptyctic	Relating to or resulting from anaptyxis
Anaptyxis	The development of a vowel between two consonants.
Hypocoristic	Denoting, or of the nature of, a diminutive form of a name
Onomasticon	A vocabulary or lexicon of (especially personal) proper names, usually presented in alphabetical order. In early use also: a list of nouns; a lexicon. Frequently used in titles.
Phoneme	A unit of sound in a language that cannot be analyzed into smaller linear units and that can distinguish one word from another (e.g. /p/ and /b/ in English pat, bat).
Vorlage	An original version of a manuscript or a book from which a copy is produced.

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-|A vocabulary or lexicon of (especially personal) proper names, usually presented in alphabetical order. In early use also: a list of nouns; a lexicon.
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-|Any of the perceptually distinct units of sound in a specified language that distinguish one word from another, for example p, b, d, and t in the English words pad, pat, bad, and bat
+|A unit of sound in a language that cannot be analyzed into smaller linear units and that can distinguish one word from another (e.g. /p/ and /b/ in English pat, bat).
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-|Refers to a prior version or manifestation of a text under consideration. It may refer to such a version of a text itself, a particular manuscript of the text, or a more complex manifestation of the text (e.g., a group of copies, or a group of excerpts).
+|An original version of a manuscript or a book from which a copy is produced.
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