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Definition of Assibilate

Assibilate
Assibilate As*sib"i*late, v. t. [L. assibilatus, p. p. of assibilare to hiss out; ad + sibilare to hiss.] To make sibilant; to change to a sibilant. --J. Peile.

Meaning of Assibilate from wikipedia

- Mashreqi varieties of Arabic (particularly Levantine and Egyptian) is to ****ibilate the interdental consonants of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) in certain...
- [l] → [r] between vowels Lat. caelum → Rom. cèr (sky) Alveolars [d t] ****ibilated to [(d)z] [(t)s] when before short [e] or long [iː] Lat. deus → Rom....
- ****tile, ****tillion, siesta, sixte †****tula ****tul- sibilus sibil- hiss ****ibilate, ****ibilation, persiflage, sibilance, sibilant, sibilate, sibilation,...
- *gʷ *gʷʰ labiovelars Merged in satem languages Merged in centum languages *k *g *gʰ plain velars *ḱ *ǵ *ǵʰ palatovelars ****ibilated in satem languages...
- intervocalically but also sometimes word-initially. /t/ is lenited and ****ibilated to [s] before /i/. The labiovelar fricative /βˠ/ may be a flap or an...
- Artamis ~ Attic hieros 'holy', Artemis Proto-Gr**** *-ti is retained (****ibilated to -si in Attic). Doric phāti ~ Attic phēsi 'he says' (3rd sing. pres...
- highland areas of Colombia. Some linguists have attempted to explain the ****ibilated rr (written in IPA as [r̝]) as a result of influence from Native American...
- the choral sections. Most of the East Gr**** dialects palatalized or ****ibilated /t/ to [s] before /i/. West Gr****, including Doric, did not undergo this...
- the "trill" phoneme (orthographic ⟨rr⟩ or word-initial ⟨r⟩) is often ****ibilated, realized as a voiced apicoalveolar fricative, or alveolar approximant...
- Tocharian, thorn clusters undergo metathesis, and in many, the dental also ****ibilates. For example, for the noun *dʰéǵʰ-ōm, genitive *dʰǵʰ-m-és, Hittite has...