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Definition of Aspirates
1. aspirate [v] - See also: aspirate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aspirates
Literary usage of Aspirates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Short Manual of Comparative Philology for Classical Students by Peter Giles (1901)
"The Indo-Germanic aspirates soon changed their character in most languages.
In the earliest Greek the Indo-Germanic voiced aspirates gh (gh, gh, § 113, ..."
2. A Sanskrit Grammar: Including Both the Classical Language, and the Older by William Dwight Whitney (1913)
"The second and fourth of each series are aspirates: thus, beside the surd mute k we
... That the aspirates, all of them, are real mutes or contact sounds, ..."
3. A Greek Grammar for the Use of High Schools and Universities by Philipp Buttmann, Edward Robinson (1833)
"The Aspirates. 1. Every aspirate is to be considered as having arisen from the
corresponding ... Hence the Latin mode of writing the aspirates, pk, th, eh. ..."
4. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"idioms freely use the sibilants and aspirates of Sanskrit in writing and pronouncing
... mentions the aversion of the Prakrit to aspirates, and remarks, ..."
5. A Grammar of the Greek Language by William Edward Jelf (1861)
"The homophonous consonants are interchanged with each other ; that is, liquids
with liquids, tenues with tenues, medien with media;, aspirates with ..."
6. Grimm's Law: a Study: Or Hints Towards an Explanation of the So-called by Thomas Le Marchant Douse (1876)
"The Italians, and notably the Latins, seem to have possessed a very defective
capacity for acquiring, or at any rate preserving, either the Aspirates ..."
7. The Latin Language: An Historical Account of Latin Sounds, Stems and Flexions by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1894)
"Greek aspirates in Latin. The Greek aspirates lost their aspiration in loanwords
used by the early writers, eg Plautus, as we gather from the MSS. ..."
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