aphaeresis

Noun
  1. (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' (synset 113454234)
    domain category: linguistics - the scientific study of language
    hypernym: deletion, omission - any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases
    synonym: apheresis

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