noun
definition
A fricative.
Examples of spirant in a Sentence
In Late Latin there was a tendency to this spirant pronunciation which appears as early as the beginning of the 2nd century A.D.; by the 3rd century b and consonantal u are inextricably confused.
V is therefore a voiced labio-dental spirant, the breath escaping through a very narrow slit between the lower lip and the upper teeth.
In modern Greek the ancient b (d) has become the voiced spirant (8), though it is still written b.
He thinks that the guttural element in E was a spirant, and therefore different from X, which is an aspirate.
The sign x was kept in the western group for the guttural spirant in E, which was written X*; but, as this spirant occurred nowhere else, the combination was often abbreviated, and X was used for X precisely as in the Italic alphabets we shall find that F =f develops out of a combination FH.
Thus F came to be the representative of the unvoiced labiodental spirant instead of that for the bilabial voiced spirant.
Latin D; while the symbol for the voiced spirant o is doubled, it is difficult to believe that the symbol for the spirant g, viz.
This change is called the " spirant mutation."
The spirant mutation occurs after a, " and," " with," ei, " her "; thus a phen, " and a head," ei phen, " her head."
A series of consonants often disappear in the spirant; thus Old Persian or Zend.
The Hebrew and probably the Phoenician name for 0 was Ain (Ayin), and in the Semitic alphabet, which does not indicate vowels, the symbol stood for a "voiced glottal stop" and also for a "voiced velar spirant" (Zimmern).
The tenuis becomes a spirant also after r or 1, as in corff from corpus, and Elfin from Alpinus; but It gives llt or ll.
There is no guttural spirant,j, but, according to circumstances, y or x (C); thus Lat.
One of the most notable differences between normal Portugiiese and Gahician is the substitution of the surd spirant in place of the sonant spirant for the Lat.
When the lips are not tightly closed the sound produced is not a stop, but a spirant like the English w.