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pre-aspiration

pre-aspiration is the alternative form of preaspiration.

Meaning of preaspiration

Noun

preaspiration (plural preaspirations)

  1. A period of voiceless breathing that precedes some consonants in some languages—a sort of mirror-image of aspiration.

Forms of pre-aspiration

pluralpre-aspirations

Questions about pre-aspiration

What is pre-aspiration the alternative form of?
Pre-aspiration is the alternative form of preaspiration.

Words near pre-aspiration in the dictionary

  1. pre-approving
  2. pre-arrange
  3. pre-arranged
  4. pre-arranges
  5. pre-arranging
  6. pre-aspiration
  7. pre-aspirations
  8. pre-assembled
  9. pre-auction
  10. pre-baking
  11. pre-bangian

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