By "phonetic decay" is meant that insidious and gradual alteration in the sounds of spoken words which, though it cannot be prevented, at last so corrupts a word that it becomes almost or wholly unmeaning.
As a somewhat hackneyed example of phonetic decay, we may take the case of the Latin mea domina, i.
But in order to explain how the principle of phonetic decay leads to the formation of grammatical terminations, let us look to languages with which we are more familiar.
On the other hand it is a mistake to suppose that all languages in the Indo-Chinese linguistic zone have undergone this enormous extent of phonetic decay.
Gender is the product partly of analogy, partly of phonetic decay.
It may be shown that most of the suffixes of the Indo-European dual are the longer and more primitive forms of those of the plural which have grown out of them by the help of phonetic decay.
Having lost its vitality, it was all the more exposed to phonetic decay, and became both hood and head.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "phonetic decay" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
