palatal hooks
palatal hooks is the plural of palatal hook.
Meaning of palatal hook
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
- A hamiform diacritic ⟨◌̡⟩ formerly used to mark consonantal palatalisation; superseded by the superscript jay ⟨◌ʲ⟩.
Questions about palatal hooks
- What is palatal hooks the plural of?
- Palatal hooks is the plural of palatal hook.
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