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Affection (also known as vowel affection, infection or vowel mutation), in the linguistics of the Celtic languages, is the change in the quality of a vowel under the influence of the vowel of the following final syllable.

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Notable quotes

“A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.”
— André Maurois, Ariel (1923).
“There is no resource so firm for the Government of the United States as the affections of the people, guided by an enlightened policy; and to this primary good nothing can conduce more than a faithful representation of public proceedings, diffused without restraint throughout the United States.”
— George Washington, Fifth Annual Address (1793) in Messages and Papers of the Presidents (1896), page 142.
“The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.”
— William Hazlitt, Table Talk, On the Past and Future.
“She had become such an integral part of my life that, without her light, presence, and solace, I would feel incomplete.”
— Sanu Sharma, Bhaujoo

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Affection (also known as vowel affection, infection or vowel mutation), in the linguistics of the Celtic languages, is the change in the quality of a vowel under the influence of the vowel of the following final syllable. It is a type of anticipatory (or regressive) assimilation at a distance. The vowel that triggers the change was later normally lost. Some grammatical suffixes cause i-affection. In Welsh, "word" and "device suffix" yield "dictionary", with in becoming . The two main types of affection are a-affection and i-affection. There is also u-affection, which is more usually referred to as u-infection. I-affection is an example of i-mutation and may be compared to the Germanic umlaut, and a-affection is similar to Germanic a-mutation. More rarely, the term "affection", like "umlaut", may be applied to other languages and is then a synonym for i-mutation generally. See also

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