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apicoprepalatal en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep-der. Proto-Italic *apeks Latin apex New Latinder. English apico- Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-? Proto-Indo-European *pel-? Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-osder. Latin palātumder. Old French palatbor. Middle English palate English palate Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English palatal English prepalatal English apicoprepalatal From apico- + prepalatal.

Meanings

1. (of a sound) Articulated with the tip of the tongue against a spot just to the front of the palate.
   • Voiced apicoprepalatal or dorsoprepalatal assibilated fricative, similar to English […] 1968, Melvyn C. Resnick, The Coordination and Tabulation of Phonological Data in American Spanish Dialectology:
   • […] but the difference between the apicoprepalatal and the domed lateral diaphone (9.231) is not. 1994, Herbert Pilch, Manual of English Phonetics:
   • […] rather indicates a (retroflex) apicoprepalatal nasal. But Firth himself calls the place of articulation "the hard palate", which strictly […] 1973, Erik Gren, Orientalia Suecana:
   • […] as for the Japanese ingressive apicoprepalatal fricative approximant or […] 2002, Fernando Poyatos, Nonverbal Communication across Disciplines: Volume 2: Paralanguage, kinesics, silence, personal and environmental interaction, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 162:

Forms

Relateds

apicosubalveolar · apicopostalveolar · apicoalveolar · apicopalatal