A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology
n. In historical phonology, a form or segment in a particular language which is historically derived from a form or segment in an ancestral form of the language, its etymon. Thus, English father is the reflex of Old English fæder, and English /f/ is the reflex of Proto-Indo-European /p/.
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