/sfahr'ah bahk"tee/ ; Skt. /sveuh rddeuh buk"ti/ , n. Ling.
the process of inserting vowel sounds into a consonant cluster, as in a loanword to make it conform to the pattern of the speaker's language and, hence, more easily pronounceable, as in the Italian pronunciation /lahn'tsee ke nek"kaw/ for German Landsknecht /lahnts"knekht'/ . Cf. epenthesis .
[ 1875-80; ]