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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
The lengthened grade that appears in words of a certain root group, or stem group, in the course of vocalic variations.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Qualifier: Indo-European linguistics
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From German Dehnstufe, from dehnen (“to stretch”) + Stufe (“step”).
