proclitic

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Noun

proclitic (plural proclitics)

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

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

Related terms

• clitic
• enclitic

Translations

• French: proclitique
• German: proklitisch (adjective), Proklitikon
• Russian: проклити́ческий
• Spanish: proclítico

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