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obstruent en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈɒbstɹuːənt/
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin obstruēns, obstruentis.
Meanings
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Causing obstruction; blocking up.
Forms
Deriveds
deobstruent · unobstruent
Relateds
obstruency
Synonyms
hindering
obstruent en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈɒbstɹuːənt/
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin obstruēns, obstruentis.
Meanings
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A consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway, causing turbulence; a plosive, fricative, or affricate.
Lehmann (1998:77) and Steever (1998: 14, 16) considered āytam an allophone of Tamil /y/ before obstruents, but there is no real evidence for this assumption.
2003, Bhadiraju Krishnamurti, The Dravidian Languages, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:
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Anything that obstructs, especially in the passages of the body.
Forms
Antonyms
sonorant
Coordinates
continuant
Deriveds
final obstruent devoicing
Hypernyms
consonant
Translations (13)
pt obstruinte (consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway) · vi âm ồn (consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway) · sl nezvočnik (consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway) · cmn 阻音 (consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway) · ru смы́чный (consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway) · sv obstruent (consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway) · hu zörejhang (consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway) · pt consoante obstruente (consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway) · de Geräuschlaut (consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway) · ja 阻害音 (consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway) · hu obstruens (consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway) · el φρακτικό (consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway) · de Obstruent (consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway)