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Definition of Spirants
1. spirant [n] - See also: spirant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spirants
Literary usage of Spirants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Short Manual of Comparative Philology for Classical Students by Peter Giles (1901)
"Thus to every set of stops we have a corresponding set of spirants, ... Besides ]>
and d two other spirants corre- Three classes of spond to t and d. ..."
2. A Short Manual of Comparative Philology for Classical Students by Peter Giles (1895)
"Thus to every set of stops we have a corresponding set of spirants, (a) To velar
q and g ... Besides J> and <£ two other spirants correspond to t and d. ..."
3. Principles of Greek Etymology by Georg Curtius (1886)
"D. Sporadic changes of the spirants. Nothing is so characteristic of the Greek
phonetic system as the aversion to the spirants. Of all the consonants these ..."
4. The German Language: Outlines of Its Development by Tobias Johann Casjen Diekhoff (1914)
"Fricatives or spirants. The consonants in whose production the expiration is but
partially obstructed in the mouth we call fricatives or ..."
5. The German Language: Outlines of Its Development by Tobias Johann Casjen Diekhoff (1914)
"Fricatives or spirants. The consonants in whose production the expiration is but
partially obstructed in the mouth we call fricatives or ..."
6. An Introduction to Greek and Latin Etymology by John Peile (1872)
"I have thus shewn the different simple sounds to which the spirants sank in Greek,
... The spirants in Latin have been also very considerably affected; ..."
7. A Comparative Grammar of the Indo-Germanic Languages: A Concise Exposition by Karl Brugmann, Robert Seymour Conway, William Henry Denham Rouse (1888)
"The voiceless spirants, which arose after s in Lat. and Germanic, ... spirants are
produced by the mouth channel being narrowed at one part in such a manner ..."
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