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Vocalism
Vocalism meaning
Speaking or singing. | The vowel sounds used in a language. | The vowels, sequence of vowels, or the quality peculiar to the vowels of a given word or group of words.
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Example sentences (3)
The imperative classes tend to share the same suffix as the corresponding preterite (if any), but to have root vocalism that matches the vocalism of a verb's subjunctive.
This suggests that, for these verbs in particular, the active originates in the PIE sigmatic aorist (with s suffix and ē vocalism) while the mediopassive stems from the PIE perfect (with o vocalism).
In 1938, George S. Lane remarked of Tocharian that "the vocalism so far has defied almost every attempt that has been made to bring it to order", Lane, George S. "Problems of Tocharian Phonology".