spirant

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Consonant-Stems fall into several natural subdivisions, according as the stem ends in a Mute, Liquid, Nasal, or Spirant.

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)

A List of Illustrative Words from the Aberdeen Dialect § 17 Inorganic y in Scotch § 18 D for the Spirant th § 19 O. E. ā and O. N. æi.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias

Spirant, spī′rant, n. a consonant which is fricative or continuable—opp. to explosive, esp. v and f, th, dh; by others made to include the sibilants, and the semi-vowels w and y.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various