different between iotation vs iotize

English

Alternative forms

• jotation

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (iôta) + English -tion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /a????te???n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /a?o??te???n/

Noun

iotation (usually uncountable, plural iotations)

1. (linguistics) A specific occurrence of palatalization that occurred in the Proto-Slavic language, in which a consonant combined with the palatal approximant /j/ to form a palatalized consonant.
2. (linguistics) Any similar process occurring in a later Slavic language or elsewhere.

   A form of iotation in the Serbo-Croatian language: s (/s/) + j (/?/) = sj (/s?/), which is then superseded into ? (/?/)

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• iotise

Etymology

1854 pre-iotized, 1874 iotization, iotized, 1890 iotised, 1906 iotise. Adapted from Ancient Greek ?????? (?otízo, “I write with an iota”). Compare iota.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a??ta?z/

Verb

iotize (third-person singular simple present iotizes, present participle iotizing, simple past and past participle iotized) (transitive)

1. (linguistics) To precede a spoken vowel sound with a "y" sound, as the u in "pure" and "cute".

Usage notes

The verb form iotize/iotise is exceedingly rare, compared to the participle, noun and adjective forms.

The adjective iotified is used in the names of several Cyrillic letters in the Unicode standard. Although widely cited, it appears to be a nonce borrowing from Slavic, however, as the corresponding back-formations iotify and iotification are unattested.

Synonyms

• iotate (attested 1939 iotated, 1978 iotate)

Derived terms

• iotization
• iotized (adj.)

Related terms

• iota
• iotated
• iotation
• jot
• jod, yod
• yodization, yotization