Dissimilate - English meaning

verb

Change (a sound or sounds in a word) to another when the word originally had identical sounds near each other (e.g. in taper, which derives from papyrus, the p is dissimilated to t ).

verb

Change (a sound or sounds in a word) to another when the word originally had identical sounds near each other (e.g. in taper, which derives from papyrus, the p is dissimilated to t).

Usage examples:

In pilgrim, from latin peregrinus, the first r is dissimilated to l.

verb

When two similar sounds near to each other in speech dissimilate, one of them changes so that they are easier to pronounce

Usage examples:

Voiced stops may co-occur in adjacent syllables, and do not dissimilate., the most likely explanati…