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In linguistics, prothesis (; from post-classical Latin based on próthesis 'placing before'), or less commonly prosthesis (from Ancient Greek ???????}} prósthesis 'addition'), is the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word without changing the word's meaning or the rest of its structure. A vowel or consonant added by prothesis is called prothetic or less commonly prosthetic.

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