Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To form or divide into syllables.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To syllabicate.
Wiktionary
- v. To divide a word into syllables; to syllabicate; to syllabize.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To form or divide into syllables.
WordNet 3.0
- v. divide into syllables
Etymologies
- First attested in 1799–1802; back-formation from syllabification; compare the Old French sillabifier. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It proves that this was so since there are only so many ways in which a word may syllabify according to the basic principle of sonority hierarchy, an important concept in phonetics.”
“Hmmm, that doesn't sound right to me since phonotactic restrictions would cause the nasal to syllabify before the laryngeal and then it would be pronounced **m̥h₂ḱros, no?”
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