proclitic

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪtɪk

Noun

proclitic (plural proclitics)

1. (linguistics) A clitic which joins with the following word phonetically, graphically, or both.

   In dialectal or poetic English, the pronoun the or to can become a proclitic, t'.

Translations

clitic which joins the following word

• Arabic: مُلْحَق‎ (mulḥaq)
• Dutch: proclisis
• French: proclitique (fr) m
• German: proklitisch (adjective), Proklitikon (de) n

• Japanese: 後接語 (ja) (kōsetsugo)
• Polish: proklityka f
• Russian: проклити́ческий (ru) (proklitíčeskij) (adjective), прокли́тика (ru) f (proklítika)
• Serbo-Croatian: проклитика f (proklitika)

Related terms

• clitic
• enclitic

See also

• Wikipedia article on clitics