Definition of Geminates. Meaning of Geminates. Synonyms of Geminates

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Definition of Geminates

Geminate
Geminate Gem"i*nate, v. t. To double. [R.] --B. Jonson.
Geminate
Geminate Gem"i*nate, a. [L. geminatus, p. p. of genimare to double. See Gemini.] (Bot.) In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers. --Gray.

Meaning of Geminates from wikipedia

- its extensive geminated consonants. In Standard Italian, word-internal geminates are usually written with two consonants, and geminates are distinctive...
- disagreement on how to classify Cypriot Gr**** geminates, though they are now generally understood to be "geminates proper" (rather than clusters of identical...
- singleton or geminate. Geminate consonants shorten the preceding vowel (or block phonetic lengthening) and the first element of the geminate is unreleased...
- is subject to dialectal variation. /t/ shifts to /t͡s/ initially, in geminates, and after another consonant: Old Saxon tehan : OHG zehan (English ten...
- This article contains characters used to write reconstructed Proto-Indo-European words (for an explanation of the notation, see Proto-Indo-European phonology)...
- simplified geminates of multigraphs (see above) such as <nny>, <ssz> are collated as <ny>+<ny>, <sz>+<sz> etc., if they are double geminates, rather than...
- table: Spanish is marked by palatalization of the Latin double consonants (geminates) nn and ll (thus Latin annum > Spanish año, and Latin anellum > Spanish...
- words, double consonants are generally not pronounced as geminates in modern French (but geminates can be heard in the cinema or TV news from as recently...
- single consonant (including nasals and semivowels but excluding geminates), G = geminate consonant, N = nasal stop, S = semivowel These forms are subject...
- West Greenlandic Inuttut "speaking like a person"). the non-nasal voiced geminates in Inuktun (gg, vv, ll, rr) are pronounced with a glottal stop + single...