untrill
verbEtymology From un- + trill.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Sciences To remove the trill from.
- Even in such a language as German some one must have begun to make his [r] into a back sound, and to untrill it, and it was only gradually that the change spread through whole communities.1994, Dugald Stewart, Comparativist Controversies, volumes 1-2, page 28: