Fricatize

Quick meaning: Fricatize is a verb meaning (linguistics) To make fricative.

Meaning

(linguistics) To make fricative.

Example Sentences

An isogloss, running hundreds of miles from Kaliningrad to the Rhine Valley, separates those varieties that fricatize these stops from those that do not.

We do not have any fricatized gutturals in English, but we have fricatized labials and dentals which we spell in very inconsistent ways. We sometimes fricatize the letter “p” by adding “h” to it.

Thus Latin /k/ suffers voicing to OSp. /g/, which is then fricatized to [v] by about the thirteenth century (Lloyd 1987:327) (e.g. SĒCĀRE > segar "to reap" , where g => [y] , as in Modern Spanish).

Word Forms

• fricatizes
• fricatizing
• fricatized
• fricativize

Synonyms for fricatize

Depending on context, synonyms include affricatize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fricativise, fricatise, fricativize, frab, frieze, friz.

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