preaspiratev.
/(ˌ)priːˈaspᵻreɪt/, U.S. /ˌpriˈæspəˌreɪt/ Phonetics.
transitive. To aspirate (a sound) in advance of another sound.
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1928 J. P. Harrington Vocab. Kiowa Lang. (U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. Bull. No. 84) 2 The final w or y is retained in the pronunciation and can be preglottalized or preaspirated.
1976 Archivum Linguisticum 7 95 All geminates are held to have once been preaspirated.
1990 N. E. Collinge Encycl. Lang. 18 Many speakers of Northern Scottish would postaspirate the [k] of cat and preaspirate the [t].
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preˈaspirated adj.
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1934 Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 33 191 The preaspirated tenues in Scotland are due to the same Norse substratum.
1948 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 14 13/1 Phonetically the baby words are simple: there are no preaspirated consonants.
1996 Language 72 349 Preaspirated, glottalized, and other less common kinds of nasals are vanishingly rare in our pronominal data.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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