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fricative consonant
(redirected from Voiceless fricative)

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Noun1.fricative consonant - a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract
fricative, spirant
continuant, continuant consonant - consonant articulated by constricting (but not closing) the vocal tract
sibilant, sibilant consonant - a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh)
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This explanation of the rise of the voiceless fricative [f] in chafer seems better grounded (cf.
Karl Luick's Historische Grammatik and medieval English consonant ... by Welna, Jerzy / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
As we have just seen (stage 2 above) Grimm's Law maintained that the IE voiceless stops p, t, k became Gmc voiceless fricatives f, [theta], x [or h].
The Word: The Dictionary That Reveals the Source of English by Besserman, Lawrence / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
Verner's Law and the Old English strong verb paradigm The distribution of the vestiges of the original Vernerian voiceless and voiced alternants in Old English strong verb paradigm entailed the presence of the old voiceless fricative in the infinitive and 1, 3sg.
Grammatical change in Old English strong verbs: early traces of ... by Adamczyk, Elzbieta / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
 
 
 
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