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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

pretonal en · ADJ

Etymology

From pre- + tonal.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) pretonic
    • The -u- and -o- in suntsòrra and tsontsòrra could be the result of pretonal vowel assimilation, but this still leaves us with Bittese tsontsikòrra 'earwig', for which assimilation is not a satisfactory explanation. 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 208: