Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Articulation of sound; enunciation; pronunciation; phonetic character.
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Gaelic; their phonesis seemed primeval and inexplicable, and nothing could be made out of their pronouns which could not be equally made out of many wholly un-Aryan languages.
Celtic Literature Matthew Arnold 1855
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The phonesis of Welsh as it stands is modern, not primitive its grammar, -- the verbs excepted, -- is constructed out of the fragments of its earlier forms, and its vocabulary is strongly Romanised, two out of the six words here given being Latin of the Empire.
Celtic Literature Matthew Arnold 1855
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