English edit

Etymology edit

haplology +‎ -ize

Verb edit

haplologize (third-person singular simple present haplologizes, present participle haplologizing, simple past and past participle haplologized)

  1. (intransitive) To undergo haplology.
    • 2000, Morphologie / Morphology, 1. Halbband, →ISBN, page 395:
      In neither instance is more than one possessive s manifested (*McMug's's); the predicted two suffixes haplologize to a single instance of s.
    • 2007, Zheng Xu, Inflectional Morphology in Optimality Theory, →ISBN, page 17:
      De Lacy admits that "[coalescence] does not make any prediction about the preservation of features when two affixes haplologize."
  2. (transitive) To shorten by haplology.
    • 1999, Compositiones indogermanicae: in memoriam Jochem Schindler (Heiner Eichner, Hans Christian Luschützky, Velizar Sadovski):
      A number of IE languages show a tendency to haplologize sequences of the type *-sVs- to *-s-,
    • 2013, Lyle Campbell, Historical Linguistics, →ISBN, page 34:
      For example, if the word haplology were to undergo haplology (were to be haplologized), it would reduce the sequence lolo to lo, haplology > haplogy.