tonoexodus

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What does tonoexodus mean?

A process in which a language loses tones.

Where does tonoexodus come from?

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ten- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *tónos Proto-Hellenic *tónos Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos)der. English tono- English Exodus ▲ English tonogenesisinflu. English tonoexodus From tono- + Exodus, by analogy with tonogenesis, reinterpreting the suffix -genesis as the book of the Bible, Genesis, which is directly followed by Exodus.

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