Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
APOPHONY
Etymology
Noun
apophony (countable and uncountable, plural apophonies)
(phonetics) Alternation of sounds within a word that indicates grammatical information (often inflectional).
Synonyms
• ablaut
• gradation
• stem mutation
Source: Wiktionary
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THEORETICAL
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