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Aphesis
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; - the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Aphesis'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/a/aphesis.html. 1828.