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obstruents

obstruents is the plural of obstruent.

Meaning of obstruent

Noun

obstruent (plural obstruents)

  1. A consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway, causing turbulence; a plosive, fricative, or affricate.
    • Lehmann (1998:77) and Steever (1998: 14, 16) considered āytam an allophone of Tamil /y/ before obstruents, but there is no real evidence for this assumption.2003, Bhadiraju Krishnamurti, The Dravidian Languages, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN
    Antonyms:
    sonorant
  2. Anything that obstructs, especially in the passages of the body.

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Questions about obstruents

What is obstruents the plural of?
Obstruents is the plural of obstruent.

Words near obstruents in the dictionary

  1. obstructor
  2. obstructors
  3. obstructs
  4. obstruency
  5. obstruent
  6. obstruents
  7. obstruse
  8. obstruser
  9. obstrusest
  10. obstrusive
  11. Obsts

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