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Definition of Proclitic
1. a. Leaning forward; -- said of certain monosyllabic words which are so closely attached to the following word as not to have a separate accent.
Definition of Proclitic
1. Noun. (linguistics) A clitic which phonetically joins with the following word. In English, the dialectal form t' is an example. In Arabic, conjunctions and prepositions that have only one letter, such as (Arab ?) (wa-), always attach as a prefix to the following word. ¹
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Definition of Proclitic
1. [n -S]