geminate

[ US /ˈdʒɛməˌneɪt, ˈdʒɛmənət/ ]
NOUN
  1. a doubled or long consonant
    the `n' in `thinness' is a geminate
VERB
  1. form by reduplication
    The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel
    The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word
  2. occur in pairs
  3. arrange or combine in pairs
    The consonants are geminated in these words
  4. arrange in pairs
    Pair these numbers
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How To Use geminate In A Sentence

  • I had also many friendly conversations with prominent Italians in Paris, and in every way ingeminated agreement between them and the Southern Slavs. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2
  • First, That as in other words, so in these, this is in the Scripture usually an antanaklasis, whereby the same word is ingeminated in a different sense and acceptation. The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
  • The correlation of voice was replaced by one of intensity tense : lax, with the tense member realized with relative length, thus a tendency to an opposition geminate : simple. Bronze Age Areal influence in Anatolia and Etruscan
  • We ingeminate that, introducing innovation and development mode and actively enter into the market of artwork investment and the collection market.
  • If I could only find my friend Basket, or get a message taken to him," ingeminated the Major, whose teeth were chattering despite the tropical atmosphere of the gallery. The Mayor of Troy
  • God, in Scripture, and so often ingeminated, as this of his holiness. The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 06.
  • Tropylium: "You suggested geminate glottalized creaky. Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing
  • the `n' in `thinness' is a geminate
  • Like English geminates and schwas, Hebrew matres lectionis have a more ambiguous relation to speech than graphemes that code consonants, for example, and are thus coded less effectively.
  • If the supershort schwa is word-medial, it lengthens an accented vowel in an immediately-preceding open syllable, otherwise all supershort schwas geminate the immediately-preceding consonant instead. Archive 2008-07-01
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