pretonic

See also: pretònic

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ tonic.

Adjective

pretonic (not comparable)

1. That immediately precedes a stressed syllable
   • 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 110:

     The pretonic -u in krukkúri, krukkúri̯u is likely due to assimilation to the following stressed vowel.

Translations

immediately preceding a stressed syllable

• Catalan: pretònic, protònic
• Finnish: painollista tavua edeltävä
• French: prétonique (fr)
• German: vortonig
• Italian: pretonico (it)
• Portuguese: pretónico (pt), protónico, protônico (Brazil)
• Russian: предуда́рный (ru) (predudárnyj)
• Spanish: protónico (es)

Anagrams

• entropic, inceptor