Standard Lemma guide
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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.
adj
Articulated at the velopharynx. (Those with cleft palate produce such sounds instead of standard sibilants.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sciences
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noun
A sound articulated at the velopharynx.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sciences
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History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weg-der.? Proto-Indo-European *weǵh-der.? Proto-Italic *wekslom Latin vēlumder. English velo- Ancient Greek φάρυγξ (phárunx)bor. Latin pharynx Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Indo-European *-éyos Proto-Italic *-ejos Proto-Italic *-eos Latin -eus Late Latin pharyngeus English -al English pharyngeal English velopharyngeal From velo- + pharyngeal.
