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alveolarization

noun

Etymology

From alveolar + -ization or alveolarize + -ation.

  1. borrowed from alveolus
  2. formed as alveolar — “alveolus + -ar”
  3. suffixed as alveolarization — “alveolar + ization”

Definitions

  1. The formation of alveoli.

  2. The conversion (over time) to alveolar sounds of sounds with another place of…

    The conversion (over time) to alveolar sounds of sounds with another place of articulation (palatal, labial, etc.).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for alveolarization. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA