Definition of "epenthetic" []

• Of or pertaining to epenthesis; having been inserted into a word, as an epenthetic phoneme or syllable. (adjective)

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• "Do they just ignore it as some kind of epenthetic vowel?"
• "And even then you'd sort of want to insert an *a like the epenthetic a you have just described."
• "It is not an epenthetic vowel that developed naturally, but looking at the way it behaves, I'm quite sure that the phonetic value of the vowel in between w and d should have the same phonetic value as the type 2 epenthetic vowel."