Obstruentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Learned borrowing from Latin obstruēns, obstruentis.

発音

• IPA: /ˈɒbstɹuːənt/

形容詞

obstruent (comparative more obstruent, superlative most obstruent)

1. Causing obstruction; blocking up.

   Synonym: hindering

   an obstruent medicine

派生語

関連する語

• obstruency

名詞

obstruent (plural obstruents)

1. (phonetics) A consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway, causing turbulence; a plosive, fricative, or affricate.

   Antonym: sonorant

   Hypernym: consonant

   Hyponyms: plosive, fricative, affricate

   Coordinate term: continuant

   • 2003, Bhadiraju Krishnamurti, The Dravidian Languages‎, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:

     Lehmann (1998:77) and Steever (1998: 14, 16) considered āytam an allophone of Tamil /y/ before obstruents, but there is no real evidence for this assumption.

2. (medicine) Anything that obstructs, especially in the passages of the body.

派生語

• final obstruent devoicing

アナグラム

• buttoners, rebuttons