spirant
IPA: spˈaɪrʌnt
noun
- (linguistics, dated) A fricative.
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Examples of "spirant" in Sentences
- When the lips are not tightly closed the sound produced is not a stop, but a spirant like the
- In Late Latin there was a tendency to this spirant pronunciation which appears as early as the beginning of the 2nd century
- Between vowels b and g have usually been kept, the former as a bilabial spirant: in more popular treatment d has disappeared
- If we posit a voiceless spirant value for Uralic *x by this stage anyway, over in PFP the closest equivalent would be śexćim.
- Where z occurs the sound intended is that of English z. gh in the Black Speech and Orcish represents a ‘back spirant’ (related to g as dh to d); as in ghâsh and agh.
- After Lat. i the v disappeared (rivus-um, Span. rio), but in most other cases it remained as a bilabial spirant euqal in balue to originally intervocalic b (novus-um, Span. nuevo).
- For (archaic) Sindarin a sign for a spirant m (or nasal v) was required, and since this could best be provided by a reversal of the sign for m, the reversible No. 6 was given the value m, but No. 5 was given the value hw.
- E. down to the fifteenth century, the initial b remained the stop or explosive (like English b) that it was in Latin, it has become in more recent times a bilabial spirant and as such is now co-equal with the Spanish v, which early gained this value both initially and medially.
- In the rearrangement of the Angerthas the following principles are observable (evidently inspired by the Fëanorian system): (1) adding a stroke to a branch added ‘voice’; (2) reversing the certh indicated opening to a ‘spirant’; (3) placing the branch on both sides of the stem added voice and nasality.
- If they do obtain their suit, which with such cost and solicitude they have sought, they are not so freed, their anxiety is anew to begin, for they are never satisfied, nihil aliud nisi imperium spirant, their thoughts, actions, endeavours are all for sovereignty and honour, like [1819] Lues Sforza that huffing Duke of
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