palatal hook
palatal hook noun: a small hook for attaching elastic bands on the internal side of braces fixed to the upper teeth.
Noun
palatal hook (plural palatal hooks)
- A small hook for attaching elastic bands on the internal side of braces fixed to the upper teeth.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:palatal hook.
- = háček (when it takes the form of a prime)
- In the Zographensis one finds pьřěaxǫ (John 6:52). Here the liquid is marked with the palatal hook.1962, Revue Canadienne des Slavistes, V, page 60
- Kalnyn′ states […] that in the best manuscripts […] the instances of marking of palatal l and n in general exceeds those of failing to do so; moreover, the marking of non-palatal consonants with a palatal hook is rare.1968, Robert Magidoff et al., editors, Studies in Slavic Linguistics and Poetics, in Honor of Boris O. Unbegaun, page 42
- A hamiform diacritic ⟨◌̡⟩ formerly used to mark consonantal palatalisation; superseded by the superscript jay ⟨◌ʲ⟩.
Forms of palatal hook
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Questions about palatal hook
- What does palatal hook mean?
- Palatal hook means a small hook for attaching elastic bands on the internal side of braces fixed to the upper teeth.
- What part of speech is palatal hook?
- Palatal hook is a noun.
- What is the plural of palatal hook?
- The plural of palatal hook is palatal hooks.
Words near palatal hook in the dictionary
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