epenthesis

IPA: ɛpˈɛnθʌsɪs

(phonetics, prosody) The insertion of a phoneme, letter, or syllable into a word, usually to satisfy the phonological constraints of a language or poetic context.

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In other words, epenthesis is likely to be unnecessary.
Unlike a totally unproven epenthesis, rules concerning sonorancy prove its absence in at least one case.
So ideally you want to find a noun with a-epenthesis that will correspond in root with a verb, and see what happens?
So... we see that offending verbs like these did not survive intact and yet were not resolved by metathesis or epenthesis.
This epenthesis is seen elsewhere, as in Herecele where its Greek origin emphasizes that this phonetic process did indeed happen.
I might also be interested to find out that vowel insertion is widespread enough in the world's languages to have a name, epenthesis also called anaptyxis.
I notice that Mongolian also has a similar process of left-to-right schwa epenthesis however this seems to occur to resolve clustering in the coda not the onset.
Maybe I could observe that epenthesis happens as a rule in English plural formations when the singular form of a word ends in an "s" sound; thus the plural of kiss is not kiss-s but kisses.