Do they just ignore it as some kind of epenthetic vowel?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan] Reference

Kloekhorst proposes three types of epenthetic vowels.    From Wordnik.com.  [I tripped over Pre-IE the other day] Reference

And as for the epenthetic vowel that isn't one in wVd.    From Wordnik.com.  [I tripped over Pre-IE the other day] Reference

Phoenix: Well the epenthetic vowel might not even be the most correct name for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [I tripped over Pre-IE the other day] Reference

I personally do not feel that the epenthetic vowels are so highly assumptive as you claim them to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [I tripped over Pre-IE the other day] Reference

Well the epenthetic vowel might not even be the most correct name for it, since it clearly is a phoneme.    From Wordnik.com.  [I tripped over Pre-IE the other day] Reference

It can't be of the same phonetic value as the i/e epenthetic vowel either because it's never written with e.    From Wordnik.com.  [I tripped over Pre-IE the other day] Reference

The fact that there is a change of wi/we in the Genitive is seen as a confirmation that it is in fact an epenthetic vowel.    From Wordnik.com.  [I tripped over Pre-IE the other day] Reference

Kessar has an epenthetic vowel in a position that is phonetically viable, also from a phonotactic point of view in Indo-European.    From Wordnik.com.  [I tripped over Pre-IE the other day] Reference

Although perhaps if you stop talking about "epenthetic vowels" in illegal onsets, we could discuss more credible reasons behind Hittite's spelling variations.    From Wordnik.com.  [I tripped over Pre-IE the other day] Reference

At this point, I think it represents at least two different values -- an epenthetic glottal stop before otherwise vowel-initial words, and a voiceless velar fricative i.e. x elsewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back to business: emphatic particles and verbal extensions] Reference

Because these three vowels occur in their own unique environments and never overlap, we could probably assume an epenthetic vowel phoneme /ə/ with different reflexes in different environments.    From Wordnik.com.  [I tripped over Pre-IE the other day] Reference

Though I agree that the 'wt' environment is odd, or even impossible, just because the epenthetic vowel is to be dismissed there, I see no reason why it should be dismissed all together also in kessar.    From Wordnik.com.  [I tripped over Pre-IE the other day] Reference

It's the modern form (with an excrescent, or epenthetic, -s- from somewhere or other, perhaps harvest) of the Old English ofet 'fruit' (spelled obet in early glosses), which is related to German Obst.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: OVEST.] Reference

Phoenix: "Though I agree that the 'wt' environment is odd, or even impossible, just because the epenthetic vowel is to be dismissed there, I see no reason why it should be dismissed all together also in kessar.".    From Wordnik.com.  [I tripped over Pre-IE the other day] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [I tripped over Pre-IE the other day] Reference

The presence of guttural sounds, diacritic aspirations, epenthetic and servile letters in both languages: their antiquity, both having been taught on the plain of Shinar 242 years after the deluge in the seminary instituted by Fenius Farsaigh, descendant of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

Thus the d of Hud (Chapter I) sometimes becomes t in contact with the sharp s, hence Hutson; Tomkins tends to become Tonkin, whence Tonks, if the m and k are not separated by the epenthetic p, Tompkins.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

Another characteristic of early Portuguese was the loss of intervocalic l and n, sometimes followed by the merger of the two surrounding vowels, or by the insertion of an epenthetic vowel between them: cf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

And I find it gratifying that Jonathan Williams, the proprietor of The Jargon Society at the time, allowed Cutts the honour of his own orthography (complete with epenthetic u's and circumflexes) and punctuation-allowing him to be true to his language.    From Wordnik.com.  [dbqp: visualizing poetics] Reference

SIR - As we here in the United States read your excellent reporting, we learn to sail right over such Britishisms as the epenthetic u in labour and colour, the absence of the period after Mr and Ms, and the strange placement of commas and periods outside of quotation marks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference

2. In clusters that have an -s- and stops or laryngeals we find epenthetic vowels spelled with either -e- or -i.    From Wordnik.com.  [I tripped over Pre-IE the other day] Reference

Note also Gothic watō/watins but that other forms that you claim show this same "epenthetic vowel" fall into doubt.    From Wordnik.com.  [I tripped over Pre-IE the other day] Reference

Wi/we are always distinguished, there's absolutely no ambiguity, and it's not common for them to be mixed up, except in places where we expect epenthetic vowels.    From Wordnik.com.  [I tripped over Pre-IE the other day] Reference

Some more information on the epenthetic vowels.    From Wordnik.com.  [I tripped over Pre-IE the other day] Reference

The epenthetic "f" occurs in lieutenant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lingering over lingerie?] Reference

"looped (blue lube, big boy)," he is who we trust to write, right, (the rite), our wright (can there be more?), "for ceviché" ( "ceviche" with that epenthetic apostrophe, apoplectic catastrophe, or "allover" as one again (a pattern of).    From Wordnik.com.  [dbqp: visualizing poetics] Reference

The presence of guttural sounds, diacritic aspirations, epenthetic and servile letters in both languages: their antiquity, both having been taught on the plain of Shinar 242 years after the deluge in the seminary instituted by Fenius Farsaigh, descendant of Noah, progenitor of Israel, and ascendant of Heber and Heremon, progenitors of Ireland: their archaeological, genealogical, hagiographical, exegetical, homiletic, toponomastic, historical and religious literatures comprising the works of rabbis and culdees, Torah, Talmud (Mischna and Ghemara), Massor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference