Haplology is the loss of a syllable that is similar to a syllable nearby, as when Latinnutritrix ‘nurse’ became nutrix through loss of the repeated tri, or when EnglishAnglaland ‘land of the Angles’ became England through loss of the repeated la. The phenomenon was named by Maurice Bloomfield (1896) in connection with Vedic Sanskritrujā́nāḥ, which he derived from *rujāná-nās ‘with broken nose’ through loss of ná before nās. Haplology is a special case of the Obligator…