rhotic
adjEtymology
Etymology tree English rhotacismbf. English rhotic Back-formation from rhotacism, coined in 1968 by John C. Wells.
- derived from rhotic Back-formation from rhotacism
- derived from rhotacismbf
Definitions
That allows the phoneme /ɹ/ even when not followed by a vowel, as in bar (/bɑːɹ/) and…
That allows the phoneme /ɹ/ even when not followed by a vowel, as in bar (/bɑːɹ/) and bard or barred (/bɑːɹd/); (of an English speaker) who speaks with such an accent.
- Rhotic speech is common in Ireland, Scotland, much of the United States, Canada, West Country England, and many parts of the north and west of England.
Having a sound quality associated with the letter R
Having a sound quality associated with the letter R; having the sound of any of certain IPA symbols, including /ɹ/, /ɻ/, /ɚ/, /ɝ/ and /r/.
- Near-synonym: retroflex
- What is normally understood by the term "trill" is a rhotic consonant of the type seen in the Spanish word perro 'dog', or the usual pronunciation of the phoneme /r/ in Parisian French.
A rhotic consonant or rhotic vowel (R-coloured vowel).
- Phonetic transcription of rhotics differs depending on whether the rhotic is a steady-state or dynamic vowel.
The neighborhood
- antonymnon-rhotic
- neighborrhotacism
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for 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