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mesoclisis

mesoclisis

English

Examples

Mesoclisis in the Portuguese language:

  • darei ‎(“I will give”) +
  • lhe ‎(“to him”) =
  • dar-lhe-ei ‎(“I will give (it) to him”)

Noun

mesoclisis ‎(uncountable)

  1. The insertion of a clitic inside a word (such as between a stem and a suffix).

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Etymology

From meso- +‎ clisis; compare proclisis, enclisis.

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