Definition of "deaffrication" []

• The reverse process of affrication; the process of turning an affricate into a plosive or a fricative. (noun)

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• "Similarly loans such as "chamber", "champion", "chalice" don't have an initial affricate because of "mishearing" the French, but because of representing a loan before deaffrication or from a conservativ variety, or vice versa as in the last case."