haplologize

== English == === Etymology === From haplology +‎ -ize. === Verb === haplologize (third-person singular simple present haplologizes, present participle haplologizing, simple past and past participle haplologized) (intransitive) To undergo haplology. (transitive) To shorten by haplology. 1999, Compositiones indogermanicae: in memoriam Jochem Schindler (Heiner Eichner, Hans Christian Luschützky, Velizar Sadovski): A number of IE languages show a tendency to haplologize sequences of the type *-sVs- to *-s-,