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Blocking up; Hindering

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Usage examples (3)
  • For instance, in the prehistory of Modern Persian, apocope introduced word-final clusters of obstruent or nasal + r.
  • This led to terminal obstruent devoicing spreading to the rest of the continuum, and I suspect that þd may also have originated with the Franconian node though this is...
  • If I'm correct about terminal obstruent devoicing continuing in the region, then they never did speak Old High German as we usually think of it note that terminal...
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