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de- +‎ mora +‎ -ify

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demorify (third-person singular simple present demorifies, present participle demorifying, simple past and past participle demorified)

  1. (phonology) To make nonmoraic; to remove a mora from something.
    • 2011, Mirco Ghini, Asymmetries in the Phonology of Miogliola, page 134:
      If the moraic trochee is maintained, it is necessary to say that refooting applies once footing has demorified the lengthening coda consonants.

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