Syncope

Syncope is a more serious condition than lipothymy.

Ildiko Csengei 2008

Syncope is a means of protest, but it also serves as a survival strategy, representing the only (cut and broken) form in which Ophelia can become the protagonist of the narrative that is imposed on her by force.

Ildiko Csengei 2008

Various forms of Elision are called Syncope, Synizesis, and Synalœpha.

The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum

"Syncope" is the word they use in the graphic; that just means fainting.

CNN Transcript Jan 14, 2002 2002

Syncope, in the sense of contraction or elision, is also the name of a poetic device used for securing the cadence of a line, or making the line fit into the syllable pattern of the stanza.

Ildiko Csengei 2008

Syncope looks like a short, temporary death, from which the patient slowly comes back to life as the circulation is restored and all the suppressed

Ildiko Csengei 2008

I should restate: the *s- would have started 'disappearing' in native roots, along with the Semitic doublets, some time after Syncope while the verb *steh₂- was coined *before* Syncope and was eventually treated the same as the doublets as if there was an original root **teh₂-.

Suspicious IE roots, possibly deserving our scorn or maybe not 2010

Syncope, according to Robert James, is "a sudden Check or Stop put to the Motion of the Heart."

Ildiko Csengei 2008

The Semitic doublets loaned into Pre-IE would be the trigger and from there, the pattern could be expanded to indistinguishable native roots like *steh₂-, which may be dated to after the period of Syncope.

Suspicious IE roots, possibly deserving our scorn or maybe not 2010

I have a feeling that you're going to explain this form with Etruscan Syncope, but could you illustrate how you imagine this happened?

Missing honey 2010