Noun: pausa
Sample Sentences
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The rule is that in the pausa a word must never end on a short vowel, but it may do so in the context. [1954, Johannes Hendrik Kramers, Analecta orientalia: posthumous writings and selected minor works:]
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Besides, the pausa endposition may have served to highlight the informational value of the substituendum. [1998, Pádraig MacCoisdealbha, The Syntax of the Sentence in Old Irish, →ISBN:]
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In pausa you say 'ih, in the jussive la- ta'ih, analogous to 'ih, la- ta'ih. And since t' is complete as two letters, the tongue utters both of them in the pausa. [2004, Gerhard Endress, Rüdiger Arnzen, Jörn Thielmann, Words, Texts, and Concepts Cruising the Mediterranean Sea, →ISBN:]
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For instance, the perfect in -miš (> -mi before pausa) always has the high unrounded vowel, the abstract noun suffix appears in a single variant +luġ, the infinitive is -maġ and the instrumental +ine. [2005, Éva Ágnes Csató, Bo Isaksson, Carina Jahani, Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion: Case Studies from Iranian, page 245:]
Nouns inflected like pausa
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin pausa (“break”), from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis). Doublet of pause. See: Latin Nouns '
pausa', Ancient Greek Nouns '
παῦσις'.