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affricatizes

affricatizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of affricatize.

Meaning of affricatize

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

Questions about affricatizes

What is affricatizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Affricatizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of affricatize.

Words near affricatizes in the dictionary

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

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