sonant – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
sonant
adj.
spoken out loud, voiced
Voice (phonetics)
sonant
Noun
1. a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords
(synonym) voiced sound
(hypernym) phone, speech sound, sound
(derivation) voice, sound, vocalize, vocalise
Adjective
1. of speech sounds
(synonym) voiced
(antonym) surd, voiceless, unvoiced
(classification) linguistics
Sonant (der)
nm.
sonance, that which is vocal
Sonant
(n.)
A sonant letter.
(a.)
Uttered, as an element of speech, with tone or proper vocal sound, as distinguished from mere breath sound; intonated; voiced; tonic; the opposite of nonvocal, or surd; -- sid of the vowels, semivowels, liquids, and nasals, and particularly of the consonants b, d, g hard, v, etc., as compared with their cognates p, t, k, f, etc., which are called nonvocal, surd, or aspirate.
(a.)
Of or pertaining to sound; sounding.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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