obstruent
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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin obstruēns, obstruentis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
obstruent (comparative more obstruent, superlative most obstruent)
- Causing obstruction; blocking up.
- Synonym: hindering
- an obstruent medicine
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Noun
obstruent (plural obstruents)
- (phonetics) A consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway, causing turbulence; a plosive, fricative, or affricate.
- Antonym: sonorant
- Hypernym: consonant
- Hyponyms: plosive, fricative, affricate
- Coordinate term: continuant
- 2003, Bhadiraju Krishnamurti, The Dravidian Languages, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:
- 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.
- (medicine) Anything that obstructs, especially in the passages of the body.
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Translations
consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway
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French
Verb
obstruent
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Latin
Verb
obstruent