Alternation
71pendulum rhythm — alternation in the rhythm of the heart sounds in which the diastolic sound is equal in time, character, and loudness to the systolic sound, the beat of the heart resembling the tick of a watch …
72Apophony — In linguistics, apophony (also ablaut, gradation, alternation, internal modification, stem modification, stem alternation, replacive morphology, stem mutation, internal inflection) is the alternation of sounds within a word that indicates… …
73Mikołaj Kruszewski — Mikołaj Habdank Kruszewski, (Russianized, Nikolay Vyacheslavovich Krushevsky, Николай Вячеславович Крушевский) (1851, Lutsk – 1887, Kazan) was a Polish linguist, most significant as the co inventor of the concept of phonemes, and relative of Anya …
74Proto-Germanic language — Proto Germanic Spoken in Northern Europe Extinct evolved into Proto Norse, Gothic, Frankish and Ingvaeonic by the 4th century Language family Indo European …
75alternance — [ altɛrnɑ̃s ] n. f. • 1830; de alternant 1 ♦ Succession répétée, dans l espace ou dans le temps, qui fait réapparaître tour à tour, dans un ordre régulier, les éléments d une série. Alternance de bancs de sable et d argile. L alternance des… …
76Morphophonology — (also morphophonemics, morphonology) is a branch of linguistics which studies, in general, the interaction between morphological and phonetic processes. When a morpheme is attached to a word, it can alter the phonetic environments of other… …
77Estonian language — Infobox Language name=Estonian nativename=eesti keel familycolor=Uralic states=Estonia region=Northern Europe speakers=1.1 million fam2=Finno Ugric fam3=Finno Volgaic fam4=Finno Lappic fam5=Baltic Finnic nation=EST|Estonia EUR|European Union… …
78Laryngeal theory — The laryngeal theory is a generally accepted theory of historical linguistics which proposes the existence of a set of three (or more) consonant sounds that appear in most current reconstructions of the Proto Indo European language (PIE). These… …
79plant — plantable, adj. plantless, adj. plantlike, adj. /plant, plahnt/, n. 1. any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that… …
80Old French — Spoken in northern France, parts of Belgium (Wallonia) and Switzerland, England, Ireland, Kingdom of Sicily, Principality of Antioch, Kingdom of Cyprus Extinct evolved into Middle French by the 14th century …
