An alteration a particular sound of a word, especially the initial consonant, which is triggered by the word's morphological or syntactic context and not by its phonological context.
A group of thrushes.
Any alteration or change.
A mutant.
Any heritable change of the base-pair sequence of genetic material.
A word with the same meaning as another formed by removing one or more of the syllables of the longer word, and considered a word in its own right rather than an abbreviation.
Particularly in Slavic languages, a shortened form of the adjective, used predicatively.