prevoiceless
adjEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der. Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs Proto-Italic *wōks Latin vōcem Anglo-Norman voizbor. Middle English voys English voice Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English voiceless English prevoiceless From pre- + voiceless.
- derived from pre- English pre- Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der
Definitions
Before a voiceless sound.
- For instance, prevoiceless /ay/-raising could be historical residue of the Great Vowel Shift, whereby /ay/ used to be uniformly realized as [əi], but lowered to [ai] except before voiceless consonants.
- If we return to the scale proposed by Hazen (2004), the presence of a monophthongal production in the prevoiceless context of tonight predicts that we might see prenasal monophthongization, which indeed we do.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for prevoiceless. 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