Talk:phylogeny

How do you pronounce the 'y' in phylogeny and phylogenetics? Like 'hyper' or like 'pygmy'?

Yes, like 'hyper'; no, unlike 'pygmy'. --yoyo (talk) 04:07, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

Homophones

Is phylogeny a homophone of philogyny?--Simplificationalizer (talk) 22:52, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

No; see the Pronunciation, which makes the first syllable of 'phylogeny' rhyme with 'file', whilst the first syllable of 'philogyny' rhymes with 'fill'. --yoyo (talk) 04:07, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

Phylesis

This is a near-synonym for 'phylogeny':

1. Phylesis \ fīˈlēsə̇s \ noun: the course of evolutionary or phylogenetic development (as of a natural group of organisms) … plural phyleses \ -​ˌsēz \ also phylesises … etymology: New Latin, from phyl- + -esis Definition of Phylesis by Merriam-Webster
2. A quotation from 1915: "… we are still in quest of direct testimony as to how flowers came into existence in particular, and as to the details of how and when they were modified afterwards. Yet we are not wholly without the direct testimony of the rocks in our inquiry as to the phylesis of the higher plants." The Phylogenetic Taxonomy of Flowering Plants, Charles E Bessey (1915), page 109 (my emphasis) This source also gives us other technical botanical terms, e.g. "Symphylly and syncarpy are later structural conditions than apophylly and apocarpy" (ibid, page 109) (my emphases). Fun fact: symphylly is the longest current or recent English word I've yet found that doesn't contain an unambiguous ("cardinal") vowel (a e i o u), discounting the obsolete Welsh borrowing twyndyllyng for the (also obsolete) twinling.

Before adding phylesis as a new page on Wiktionary, I'd like to find some more recent usage examples. --yoyo (talk) 04:43, 7 August 2021 (UTC)