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mouillé

mouillé adjective: describing a palatal or palatalized consonant, particularly one historically derived from /l/ or /n/.

Adjective

mouillé (not comparable)

  1. Describing a palatal or palatalized consonant, particularly one historically derived from /l/ or /n/.

Origin of mouillé

Borrowed from French mouillé (“wet, moist”).

Words formed from mouillé

Questions about mouillé

What does mouillé mean?
Mouillé means describing a palatal or palatalized consonant, particularly one historically derived from /l/ or /n/.
What part of speech is mouillé?
Mouillé is an adjective.

Words near mouillé in the dictionary

  1. Mouhammed
  2. mouillation
  3. mouillette
  4. mouillettes
  5. mouillure
  6. mouillé
  7. mouja
  8. moujadara
  9. moujik
  10. moujiki
  11. moujiks

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