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affricatize

affricatize verb: to become affricative.

Verb

affricatize (third-person singular simple present affricatizes, present participle affricatizing, simple past and past participle affricatized)

  1. (intransitive) To become affricative.
    • Coleman(1995: 376) and Palmada (1995: 308–310) have pointed out that there is a cross-linguistic tendency for fronted velar stops to affricatize in the palatal region, and have both proposed a [palatal] → [continuant] implication to account for this dependency.1999, Wen-Chao Li, A Diachronically-motivated Segmental Phonology of Mandarin Chinese
    • The uvular stop forward shifted to become a velar stop (i.e., q>k) in many Mayan dialects, and the velar stop tended to affricatize (e.g., k>tʃ).2004, Bede Fahey, Mayan: a Sino-Tibetan Language?: A Comparative Study, page 35

Forms of affricatize

third-person singular presentaffricatizes
present participleaffricatizing
past participleaffricatized
pastaffricatized

Origin of affricatize

From affricate + -ize.

Questions about affricatize

What does affricatize mean?
Affricatize means to become affricative.
What part of speech is affricatize?
Affricatize is a verb.
What is the past tense of affricatize?
The past tense of affricatize is affricatized.

Words near affricatize in the dictionary

  1. affrications
  2. affricative
  3. affricatives
  4. affricativization
  5. affricatization
  6. affricatize
  7. affricatized
  8. affricatizes
  9. affricatizing
  10. affriction
  11. affrictions

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