Definition of Rhotacism. Meaning of Rhotacism. Synonyms of Rhotacism

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Definition of Rhotacism

Rhotacism
Rhotacism Rho"ta*cism, n. [Gr. "rwtaki`zein to use the letter r ([rho]) overmuch: cf. F. rhotacisme.] An oversounding, or a misuse, of the letter r; specifically (Phylol.), the tendency, exhibited in the Indo-European languages, to change s to r, as wese to were.

Meaning of Rhotacism from wikipedia

- Rhotacism (/ˈroʊtəsɪzəm/ ROH-tə-siz-əm) or rhotacization is a sound change that converts one consonant (usually a voiced alveolar consonant: /z/, /d/...
- Gr**** letter λ) is the difficulty in pronouncing lateral consonants. Rhotacism is a difficulty producing rhotic consonants sounds in the respective language's...
- dictionary. Rhoticism can refer to: Rhotacism (speech impediment), difficulty in pronouncing the /r/ sound Rhotacism (sound change), the historical sound...
- step of debuccalization: Sanskrit janasas, Latin generis (where s > r by rhotacism), Gr**** *genesos > *genehos > ancient Gr**** γένεος (/ɡéneos/), Attic γένους...
- preserved up to 350 BC or so, at which point it changed into /r/ (rhotacism). This rhotacism had implications for declension: early classical Latin, honos...
- dialects of Romanian, and is posited as an intermediate historical step in rhotacism. However, the phonetic variation of the sound is considerable, and it...
- are traditionally used in the classification of the Turkic languages: Rhotacism (or in some views, zetacism), e.g. in the last consonant of the word for...
- antagonizing characters. He exhibits the speech sound disorder known as rhotacism, replacing his Rs and Ls with Ws thus referring to Bugs Bunny as a "scwewy"...
- Germanic languages attested later: It lacks Germanic umlaut. It lacks rhotacism. The language also preserved many features that were mostly lost in other...
- Proto-Germanic ē (/ɛː/, also written ǣ) to ā. The development of umlaut. The rhotacism of /z/ to /r/. The development of the demonstrative pronoun ancestral...