obstruent
nounEtymology Learned borrowing from Latin obstruēns, obstruentis.
1
Human sciences, Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Sciences A consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway, causing turbulence; a plosive, fricative, or affricate.
- 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.2003, Bhadiraju Krishnamurti, The Dravidian Languages, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:
2
Medicine, Sciences Anything that obstructs, especially in the passages of the body.
- Derived terms
- final obstruent devoicing