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preocclusion

adj

Etymology

From pre- + occlusion.

  1. derived from occlūdō
  2. borrowed from occlūsiō
  3. prefixed as preocclusion — “pre + occlusion”

Definitions

  1. Prior to occlusion.

  2. The (phonological process, seen for example in Manx, of) insertion of a short stop before…

    The (phonological process, seen for example in Manx, of) insertion of a short stop before a sonorant, such as a [d] before an [n] or [l] (resulting in the preoccluded consonants [ᵈn] and [ᵈl]).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for preocclusion. 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