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dissimilate
verb[ I or T ]
phonetics specializeduk /dɪˈsɪm.ɪ.leɪt/ us /dɪˈsɪm.ə.leɪt/
When two similar sounds near to each other in speech dissimilate, one of them changes so that they are easier to pronounce:
Voiced stops may co-occur in adjacent syllables, and do not dissimilate.
The most likely explanation for these new forms is that the ending "-awr" was dissimilated to "-ar".
In some English words like "venom", a final "n" (for example in French "venin") has dissimilated to "m".
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dissimilation
Voiced stops dissimilate to voiceless before any voiced consonant.
Voiceless consonants are the ones that face pressure to correspond or dissimilate.
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