dentilabialize

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Etymology

From dentilabial +‎ -ize.

Verb

dentilabialize (third-person singular simple present dentilabializes, present participle dentilabializing, simple past and past participle dentilabialized)

  1. (phonetics) Of Middle Chinese initial consonants /p/, /pʰ/, /b/, and /m/: to develop into /f/, /fʰ/, /v/, and /ʋ/ (or further into /f/, /w/, etc).