delabialize

English edit

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delabialise

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Pronunciation edit

(UK) IPA^(key): /diːˈleɪbɪəlaɪz/

Verb edit

delabialize (third-person singular simple present delabializes, present participle delabializing, simple past and past participle delabialized)

(transitive, phonetics, phonology) To make into a non-labial sound.
- 1884, Henry Sweet, First Middle English Primer, page 5:
  the resulting labial vowels were soon delabialized into e and ē.
(intransitive, phonetics, phonology) To become a non-labial sound.
- 1981, Charles Stephen Bird, The Dialects of Mandekan, page 170:
  /gw/ may delabialize to /g/.

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idealizable