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Definition of geminate in English: geminateadjective ˈdʒɛmɪnətˈdʒɛmɪneɪtˈdʒɛmənət Phonetics Consisting of identical adjacent speech sounds; doubled. consonants motivating a short vowel were all originally geminate Example sentencesExamples - Some geminates, however, are clearly more morphologically distinct than others are.
verb ˈdʒɛmɪnətˈdʒɛmɪneɪtˈdʒɛməˌneɪt [with object]Phonetics Double or repeat (a speech sound) a medial liquid is geminated over two syllables Example sentencesExamples - For many words, however, the most common misspelling seems to be to violate conservation of geminates, and write the word with no doubled consonants at all.
- Like English geminates and schwas, Hebrew matres lectionis have a more ambiguous relation to speech than graphemes that code consonants, for example, and are thus coded less effectively.
- Because gemination is common in Dravidian languages, double consonants in written English are often geminated: ‘sum-mer’ for summer and ‘sil-lee’ for silly.
Derivatives noun dʒɛmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n Phonetics In a slight twist to our discussion of orthographic gemination, I found myself mis-spelling ‘emporer’. Example sentencesExamples - Because gemination is common in Dravidian languages, double consonants in written English are often geminated: ‘sum-mer’ for summer and ‘sil-lee’ for silly.
- This item was recorded with gemination, but the precise status of gemination in the language is not easy to determine.
- In another good example of orthographic gemination, I was just reading something that contained the well-attested spelling ‘dissapointed’, which also seems to partake of the feeling of a zero-sum transfer of doubling.
- He also brings up some unexpected intrusions of gemination, asking how it happened that "the Italian word ‘regata’ entered English as ‘regatta’."
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin geminatus, past participle of geminare 'double, pair with', from geminus 'twin'. Definition of geminate in US English: geminateadjectiveˈjemənətˈdʒɛmənət Phonetics Consisting of identical adjacent speech sounds, especially consonants; doubled. consonants motivating a short vowel were all originally geminate Example sentencesExamples - Some geminates, however, are clearly more morphologically distinct than others are.
verbˈdʒɛməˌneɪtˈjeməˌnāt [with object]Phonetics Double or repeat (a speech sound) a medial liquid is geminated over two syllables Example sentencesExamples - Because gemination is common in Dravidian languages, double consonants in written English are often geminated: ‘sum-mer’ for summer and ‘sil-lee’ for silly.
- For many words, however, the most common misspelling seems to be to violate conservation of geminates, and write the word with no doubled consonants at all.
- Like English geminates and schwas, Hebrew matres lectionis have a more ambiguous relation to speech than graphemes that code consonants, for example, and are thus coded less effectively.
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin geminatus, past participle of geminare ‘double, pair with’, from geminus ‘twin’. |