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affricative

[ uh-frik-uh-tiv, af-ruh-key- ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to an affricate.
  2. articulated as an affricate.

affricative

/ əˈfrɪkətɪv; ˈæfrəˌkeɪ- /

noun

  1. another word for affricate
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or denoting an affricate
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of affricative1

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Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

For example, they took “zog,” the Albanian word for bird, and subbed in the approximant “y” to make “yog” or the affricative “ts” to make “tsog.”

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