The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
APHESIS
aphesis
(noun) the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in ‘squire’ for ‘esquire’
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
aphesis (countable and uncountable, plural apheses)
(linguistics, prosody) The loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word.
Synonyms
• procope
Antonyms
• prothesis (addition of the beginning of a word)
• apocope (omission at the end of a word)
Hypernyms
• apheresis
Anagrams
• saphies
Source: Wiktionary
Aph"e*sis, n. Etym: [Gr.
Definition: The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire. New Eng. Dict.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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