[e]→[∅]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 5/5

Elision Apocope Syncope Romance Germanic

Close-mid front unrounded vowel to Empty sound / Zero

The elision of [e] is one of the most frequent sound changes in European languages. It often occurs as apocope (loss of final sounds) or syncope (loss of internal sounds), typically in unstressed positions.

Phonetic Effects

Elision, Apocope, Syncope

Language Examples

Middle English to Modern English Germanic

name [naːmə]→name [neɪm]— Loss of the final 'schwa' which was historically [e].

Latin to Romance Romance

facere (final -e)→hacer (Spanish) / faire (French)— Reduction and elision of the final infinitive vowel.

Related Transformations

Reverse Intermediate step: Reduction

More Romance Shifts

[ã] → [õ] — Raising [a] → [ã] — Assimilatory Nasalization [a] → [∅] — Elision [a] → [ʔ] — Glottalization [a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction

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