Fricatives [noun]

Definition of Fricatives:

sound unit of speech

Synonyms of Fricatives:

● Click

● Consonant

● Liquid

● Phone

● Sonant

● Affricate

● Diphthong

● Implosive

● Phonetic entity

● Phonetic unit

● Plosive

● Sibilant

● Spirant

● Syllable

● Vocable


Opposite/Antonyms of Fricatives:

-


Sentence/Example of Fricatives:

Spirant, spī′rant, n. a consonant which is fricative or continuable—opp.

Instead of the former there is a g with “fricative” pronunciation, and as in High German the th has passed over into d.

Medial q is usually written (chi), representing the fricative pronunciation: Ealuin and similar.