Haplology

Examples

• Basque: sagarrardo → sagardo ('apple cider')
• German: Zaubererin → Zauberin (female 'wizard' or 'magician'; male: der Zauberer; female ending -in); this is a productive pattern applied to other words ending in (spelt) -erer.
• Dutch: narcissisme → narcisme ('narcissism')
• French: fémininité → féminité ('femininity')
• English:
  • Old English Engla land → Engle lond → England (expected form would be *Engelland)
  • Old English cyning → English king (expected form would be *kinning)
  • morphophonology → morphonology
  • conservativism → conservatism
  • femininism → feminism
  • mononomial → monomial
  • urine analysis → urinalysis
  • Colloquial (non-standard and eye dialect spellings signalled by #):
    • library (RP: ) → #libry
    • particularly → #particuly
    • probably → #probly
    • February → #Febury, #Febuary or #Febr(u)y (compare e.g. Austrian German Feber)
    • representative → #representive
    • authoritative → #authoritive
    • deteriorate → #deteriate
• Latin:
  • nutritrix → nutrix ('nurse')
  • idololatria → idolatria (hence idolatry)
• Biological Latin:
  • Hamamelididae (disallowed spelling: Hamamelidae)
  • Nycterididae → Nycteridae
  • Anomalocarididae (disallowed spelling: Anomalocaridae)
• Homeric Greek:
  • amphiphoreus (ἀμφιφορεύς) → amphoreus (ἀμφορεύς) ('two-handled pitcher, amphora')
  • kelainonéphēs (κελαινονέφης) → kelainéphēs (κελαινέφης) ('black with clouds')
• Arabic:
  • tataqātalūna (تَتَقَاتَلُونَ) → taqātalūna (تَقَاتَلُونَ) ('you are fighting each other')
  • * ʾaʾkulu (*أَأْكُلُ) → ʾākulu (آكُلُ) ('I eat')
• Spanish: impudicicia → impudicia ('lack of modesty', i.e. the nominal form of impúdico, 'immodest')
• Portuguese:
  • idadoso → idoso (aged person, senior)
  • femininismo → feminismo (feminism)
  • Colloquially in sequences like campo pequeno pronounced like "campequeno" or faculdade de letras pronounced like "faculdadletras".
• Italian:
  • tragico-comico → tragicomico ('tragicomic')
  • domani mattina → domattina ('tomorrow morning')