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palatal hook en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (qualifier:orthodontics) A small hook for attaching elastic bands on the internal side of braces fixed to the upper teeth.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:palatal hook.
2. (rare) = háček (when it takes the form of a prime)
   • l-caron/l-palatal hook 2009, Theodore Rosendorf, The Typographic Desk Reference, page 130:
   • In the Zographensis one finds pьřěaxǫ (John 6:52). Here the liquid is marked with the palatal hook. 1962, Revue Canadienne des Slavistes, V, page 60:
   • Kalnyn′ states […] that in the best manuscripts […] the instances of marking of palatal l and n in general exceeds those of failing to do so; moreover, the marking of non-palatal consonants with a palatal hook is rare. 1968, Robert Magidoff et al., editors, Studies in Slavic Linguistics and Poetics, in Honor of Boris O. Unbegaun, page 42:
   • In Czech, [the háček] is actually a variant of the palatal hook, which can take the form of caron or apostrophe. 2004, Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style, 3rd edition, page 304:
3. (pre-1989-IPA) A hamiform diacritic ⟨◌̡⟩ formerly used to mark consonantal palatalisation; superseded by the superscript jay ⟨◌ʲ⟩.

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