spirantizev.
transitive. To pronounce as a spirant, to make into a spirant.
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spirantize1911
1911 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 32 36 The former [sc. Iranian] is spirantizing language, like the old Germanic.
1964 S. K. Chatterji in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 411 In Bengali, the aspirates ph, bh, are normally spirantized to [ϕ, β].
1977 Word 28 252 It cannot be argued that early Guarani might have had an occlusive [d] in initial position and that it would have been a simple matter to spirantize it.
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ˈspirantizing adj. and n.
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spirantization1911
1896 Academy 21 Mar. 243/2 This was the point in the language at which the spirantising tendency would first attack the χ and the ϕ.
1911 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 32 36 The spirantizing of voiceless aspirates in Iranian.
1936 Language 12 247 If with the vowels we may include the semivowels, we note here the Balto-Slavonic palatalizations,..[and] the spirantizing of Latin c (that is, [k]) as it develops into the Romance languages.
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