aspirated

English

Verb

aspirated

1. simple past and past participle of aspirate

Adjective

aspirated (comparative more aspirated, superlative most aspirated)

1. (phonetics) Pronounced with an audible breath, a brief expulsion of air at the end of the sound.

   Synonym: aspirate

   Antonym: unaspirated

   Coordinate term: preaspirated

   In English, word-initial single voiceless consonants are aspirated, so that pit is pronounced [pʰɪt] but spit is pronounced [spɪt].

   In Cambodian, aspiration is phonemic, so /p/ and /pʰ/ are different phonemes.

2. (French linguistics) In French, describing an initial letter h which, though silent, does not permit liaison or elision with the preceding word.

   The h in haine is aspirated, so one says la haine, not l'haine.

Derived terms

• aspirated h
• microaspirated
• nonaspirated

 

Translations

pronounced with an audible breath

• Armenian: շնչեղ (hy) (šnčʻeġ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 送氣／送气 (zh) (sòngqì) (aspiration)

• French: aspiré (fr)
• Georgian: ფშვინვიერი (pšvinvieri)
• German: aspiriert (de), behaucht (de)
• Icelandic: fráblásinn
• Irish: análach
• Italian: aspirato (it)
• Korean: 기식성 (氣息性) (gisikseong)
• Manx: ennalit
• Navajo: yoldǫǫh
• Portuguese: aspirado (pt)
• Russian: придыха́тельный (ru) (pridyxátelʹnyj), аспири́рованный (ru) (aspirírovannyj)
• Sanskrit: महाप्राण (sa) (mahāprāṇa)
• Slovak: aspirovaný (sk)
• Spanish: aspirado (es)
• Swedish: aspirerad (sv)
• Ukrainian: придиховий (prydyxovyj), аспірований (aspirovanyj)
• Vietnamese: bật hơi

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