释义 |
lingualize, v.|ˈlɪŋgwəlaɪz| [f. lingual a. + -ize.] trans. To make lingual.
1875F. Hall in Nation XX. 116/2 The letters d, n, and t, where lingual, were, we surmise, first dentalized, so as to conform to their character everywhere on the Continent, and these letters on reaching England, where there are no vernacular dentals, were, in turn, lingualized. 1879Whitney Sanskrit Gram. 59 The final i or u of a preposition or other like prefix ordinarily lingualizes the initial s of the root to which it is prefixed. |