non-rhotic
adjEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Germanic *ne Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Germanic *nainaz Proto-West Germanic *nain Old English nān Middle English non ▲ Old English nān Old English nān- Middle English non- English non- English rhotacismbf. English rhotic English non-rhotic From non- + rhotic.
- derived from rhotic English non-rhotic From non- + rhotic
Definitions
Of an accent, most often one of English
Of an accent, most often one of English: not pronouncing the written letter "r" unless it is followed by a vowel, as in Received Pronunciation, most other accents of England, the Boston accent, traditional NYC English, many accents of southern Louisiana, Australian English, etc.
- In a non-rhotic accent, the word 'sort' can be pronounced like the word 'sought'.
The neighborhood
- antonymrhotic
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for non-rhotic. 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