APHESIS as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire” for `esquire”
   Hypernyms(s) aphesis is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • omission (what does omission mean?)
   • deletion (what does deletion mean?)