aphesis

aphesis has 2 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• n.. The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire.
• n.. the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire'