See phonemic merger in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "phonemic split"
}
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "phonemic mergers",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "phonemic merger (plural phonemic mergers)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Catalan translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Phonology",
"orig": "en:Phonology",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
20,
35
]
],
"ref": "2012, Gerhard Augst, New Trends in Graphemics and Orthography, page 171:",
"text": "The first sign of a phonemic merger is that two signs, which hitherto have been kept carefully apart, become used wrongly, e.g. das is written for MHG dar, and aller for MHG alles (Schulze 1967: 38f.).",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge and become replaced by a single phoneme."
],
"id": "en-phonemic_merger-en-noun-2OgJQlw0",
"links": [
[
"phonology",
"phonology"
],
[
"phenomenon",
"phenomenon"
],
[
"phoneme",
"phoneme"
],
[
"merge",
"merge"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(phonology) The phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge and become replaced by a single phoneme."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "merger"
}
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"phonology",
"sciences"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"sense": "phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fusió fonètica"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"sense": "phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "coalescència"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"sense": "phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fusió fonològica"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "convergence"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge",
"word": "fonéma-összeolvadás"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"roman": "onso gōryū",
"sense": "phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge",
"word": "音素合流"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "utożsamienie"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "convergencia fonémica"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge",
"word": "fonemsammanfall"
}
]
}
],
"word": "phonemic merger"
}
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "phonemic split"
}
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "phonemic mergers",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "phonemic merger (plural phonemic mergers)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms with quotations",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"en:Phonology"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
20,
35
]
],
"ref": "2012, Gerhard Augst, New Trends in Graphemics and Orthography, page 171:",
"text": "The first sign of a phonemic merger is that two signs, which hitherto have been kept carefully apart, become used wrongly, e.g. das is written for MHG dar, and aller for MHG alles (Schulze 1967: 38f.).",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge and become replaced by a single phoneme."
],
"links": [
[
"phonology",
"phonology"
],
[
"phenomenon",
"phenomenon"
],
[
"phoneme",
"phoneme"
],
[
"merge",
"merge"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(phonology) The phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge and become replaced by a single phoneme."
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"phonology",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "merger"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"sense": "phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fusió fonètica"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"sense": "phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "coalescència"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"sense": "phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fusió fonològica"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "convergence"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge",
"word": "fonéma-összeolvadás"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"roman": "onso gōryū",
"sense": "phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge",
"word": "音素合流"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "utożsamienie"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "convergencia fonémica"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge",
"word": "fonemsammanfall"
}
],
"word": "phonemic merger"
}
Download raw JSONL data for phonemic merger meaning in English (3.0kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (d6fca27 and 65e1673). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.