| 单词 | radical sound |
| 释义 | > as lemmasradical sound radical sound n. Linguistics (now rare) a sound belonging to the root of a word; an original, unchanged or indivisible sound; cf. radical letter n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > letter > unchanged letter, usually Welsh initial consonant radical letter1573 radical sound1754 1754 D. Farroe Royal Universal Brit. Gram. & Vocab. i. i. 2 Letters are those Signs, Marks, or Characters which determine certain indivisible and radical Sounds. 1833 W. Gambold Welsh Gram. (ed. 3) iv. 13 After the prefix gor, the initials b, d, g, m, r, assume their Light sound; but after tra they retain their Radical sound; as gorfod,..trablin. 1845 J. O'Donovan Gram. Irish Lang. 39 Aspiration..of the Celtic..may be defined as the changing of the radical sounds of the consonants from being stops of the breath to a sibilance. 1919 Amer. Anthropologist 21 427 In ‘paternal uncle’ the radical sound is U of ‘father’ graded by the -bĭ suffix to convert it into uncle. < as lemmas |
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