untrill en · VERB
Etymology
From un- + trill.
Meanings
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(transitive) To remove the trill from.
Even in such a language as German some one must have begun to make his [r] into a back sound, and to untrill it, and it was only gradually that the change spread through whole communities.
1994, Dugald Stewart, Comparativist Controversies, volumes 1-2, page 28:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| untrilling | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| untrills | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| untrilled | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| untrilled | Tense=Past | lexicographic |