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debuccalize en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /diːˈbʌ.kə.laɪz/

Etymology

From de- + buccalize.

Meanings

  1. (British, Canada, English, Oxford, US) To undergo debuccalization.
    • I should point out that the tendency for stops to debuccalize to glottal stop and fricatives to glottal fricative does not always hold. 2002, Paul D. Fallon, The synchronic and diachronic phonology of ejectives, page 126:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
debuccalizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
debuccalized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
debuccalized Tense=Past lexicographic
debuccalizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
debuccalise alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

debuccalization