Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Obstructing or closing natural openings or passages of the body.
- noun An obstruent medicine or agent.
- noun Linguistics A sound, such as a stop, fricative, or affricate, that is produced with complete blockage or at least partial constriction of the airflow through the nose or mouth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Obstructive; impeding.
- noun Anything that obstructs; especially, anything that blocks up the natural passages of the body.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Causing obstruction; blocking up; hindering.
- noun Anything that obstructs or closes a passage; esp., that which obstructs natural passages in the body.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun phonetics a
consonant sound formed byobstructing theairway , causing turbulence; the generic term ofplosive ,fricative andaffricate
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a consonant that is produced with a partial or complete blockage of the airflow from the lungs through the nose or mouth
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If I'm correct about terminal obstruent devoicing continuing in the region, then they never did speak Old High German as we usually think of it note that terminal obstruent devoicing is one of the criteria for distinguishing MHG from OHG.
The PIE and Pre-PIE pronominal system from the perspective of a wave model 2009
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This led to terminal obstruent devoicing spreading to the rest of the continuum, and I suspect that þd may also have originated with the Franconian node though this is little more than speculation.
The PIE and Pre-PIE pronominal system from the perspective of a wave model 2009
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For instance, in the prehistory of Modern Persian, apocope introduced word-final clusters of obstruent or nasal + r.
Pre-IE Syncope and possibly expanding the Metathesis rule 2008
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For instance, in the prehistory of Modern Persian, apocope introduced word-final clusters of obstruent or nasal + r.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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My transcription is the standard followed by both Szczurowski 1954 and Patkanyi 1963, in which g is understood as a voiced obstruent of unknown/indeterminate value and many perhaps most scholars interpretet it as dental [d] or even interdental fricative [D]!
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