different between yod vs iotize

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /j?d/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /j?d/, enPR: y?d
• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

yod (plural yods)

1. Alternative form of yodh
2. (phonetics) A palatal approximant, /j/.
   • 1976, Michael L. Mazzola, Proto-Romance and Sicilian, Peter de Ridder Press, ?ISBN, page 104:

     A statement of consonantal changes for Sicilian is dependent on the development of two sets of clusters, consonant plus yod and consonant plus /l/.

   • 1984, Frederick B. Agard, A Course in Romance Linguistics, volume 2, Georgetown University Press, ?ISBN, page 75:

     Wherever in the West (including northern Italia) the fricative allophone [x?] of coda /k/ before onsets /t/ and /s/ still remains…it now becomes semivocalized as yod, or more probably voiceless yod….

   • 2008, Philippe Ségéral & Tobias Scheer, "Positional Factors in Lenition and Fortition", in Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho et al. (eds.), Lenition and Fortition, Mouton de Gruyter, ?ISBN, page 152:

     Word-initial yod, however, does not strengthen in either of the dialects considered, which respond to Polish jab?ko, jagoda, jelén, jutro (all [j-]) "apple, berry, deer, tomorrow" with unaltered initial yod.

Derived terms

• yod coalescence
• yodization
• yodless
• yod-dropping
• yod-dropper

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

yod

1. Pronunciation spelling of yard.

Anagrams

• doy

Italian

Noun

yod m (invariable)

1. Alternative spelling of iod

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