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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 April 2026
Haplology—the term was coined by Maurice Bloomfield—within a word is a familiar phenomenon. ‘Very many examples,’ says Sturtevant (An Introduction to Linguistic Science §130.5), 'might be cited, but a few will suffice.'
1 Some instances of haplography might be looked upon as haplology of the scribes. That would be, however, a different matter.
2 Schwyzer later named as predecessors Gaston Paris and A. V. W. Jackson. I hesitate (cf. below) to express an opinion about Old French and Avestan. At all events neither appreciated fully the bearing of his observation.
3 Substantival oὑτoς rarely has any modifier except in τα
τάγϵ πάvτα, τα
τα ἕκστα, and the like. The other examples are E 831, θ 299, Λ 674, Ξ 262,
297. Thus two out of seven modifiers are relative clauses.
4 To put it otherwise: we have not a parallel to βαλλoνυχας, but would have had one to βάλλov ὄvυχαaς if that had been found in Hesiod.