spirant
Example Sentences
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Waith, O. N. væiðr, has kept the spirant, but faid, a "company of hunters," has changed it to d.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
How he would lie! and what lungs he had to lie with! immensa cavi spirant mendacia folles!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various
Floribus in pratis, legi quos ipse, coronam Contextam variis, do, Rhodoclea, tibi: Hic anemone humet, confert narcissus odores Cum violis; spirant lilia mista rosis.
From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel
The Sco. garth has changed the original voiced spirant to a voiceless one.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
The spirant th corresponding to O. N. ð, and O. E. d.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
