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buccalization

noun
/ˌbʌ.kə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/

Etymology

From buccalize + -ation.

  1. borrowed from bocka
  2. formed as buccal — “bucca + -al”
  3. suffixed as buccalize — “buccal + ize”
  4. suffixed as buccalization — “buccalize + ation”

Definitions

  1. The process of a speech sound becoming buccal.

    • Although buccalization of nasal vowels is the phenomenon most often observed, nasalization of oral vowels is not uncommon.

  2. The procedure of moving teeth towards the buccal (cheek) side of the arch.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for buccalization. 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