Definition of Labial stop

1. Noun. A stop consonant that is produced with the lips.


Literary usage of Labial stop

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Organ-stops and Their Artistic Registration: Names, Forms, Construction by George Ashdown Audsley (1921)
"The name given by Herr Weigle to a loudly-voiced, high-pressure, labial stop, of 8 ft. pitch, the pipes of which are constructed in accordance with his ..."

2. An Old English Grammar by Eduard Sievers (1893)
"P- 188. p is the surd labial stop. It is rare as an initial in Germanic words: ... In the majority of texts b is the sign for the sonant labial stop. ..."

3. Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature by Dept. of Modern Languages, Harvard University (1900)
"It is sufficient to note that, as Arabic has no voiceless labial stop, its voiced labial stop has to be used for Latin /; see Dozy and Engel- mann, p. 280. ..."

4. Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature (1900)
"*It is sufficient to note that, as Arabic has no voiceless labial stop, its voiced labial stop has to be used for Latin p; see Dozy and Engel- mann, p. 280. ..."

5. Old Spanish Readings: Selected on the Basis of Critically Edited Texts by Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford (1911)
"... by dissimilation omne > omre, whence, by the natural production of a transitional labial stop, ombre and with an etymological restoration of h, ..."

6. The Language of the Rushworth Gloss to the Gospel of Matthew and the Mercian by Edward Miles Brown (1892)
"The surd labial stop p. Initial p is rare in words of Germ, origin, except in the comb. ... The sonant labial stop Ъ. Initial Ъ is common in R', as in WS. ..."

7. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology by Ill.) University of Illinois (Urbana (1918)
"... which would be replaced either by the Nordic labiodental 8 or the labial stop b. The third wave of migration occurred during the first few centuries of ..."

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