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sonorant

noun
/səˈnɔːɹ(ə)nt/

Etymology

From sonorous + -ant, 1930s.

  1. borrowed from sonōrus
  2. formed as sonorant — “sonorous + -ant”

Definitions

  1. A speech sound that is produced without turbulent airflow in the vocal tract

    A speech sound that is produced without turbulent airflow in the vocal tract; the generic term of vowel, approximant, nasal consonant, etc.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sonorant. 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