The `n' in `thinness' is a geminate. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Tropylium: "You suggested geminate glottalized creaky.". From Wordnik.com. [Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing] Reference
First, it must be known that Etruscan lacks geminate consonants. From Wordnik.com. [The rug that you wear] Reference
Sessile spikelets geminate in all except the uppermost joints 26. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Shouldn't the geminate be some kind of indication of an assimilated coda consonant?. From Wordnik.com. [The Tower of Babel] Reference
Or considering Yottsu and yattsu, maybe we should wonder why the geminate disappeared in mutsu. From Wordnik.com. [The Tower of Babel] Reference
As you probably know the word for three is actually 'mittsu' with a geminate, whereas six is 'mutsu'. From Wordnik.com. [The Tower of Babel] Reference
It's important to recognize however that a preceding consonant need not geminate as the following vowel is deleted. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
Don't take it literally as a geminate consonant, as might be the interpretation of those familiar with IPA notation. From Wordnik.com. [Markedness and the uvular proposal in PIE] Reference
Male spikelets are geminate, one sessile and one pedicelled, 2-flowered or imperfect, and with four glumes, which are subequal. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
They're there in many Karnic languages from Central Australia, and the Top End has a geminate/singleton distinction which also involves voicing. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: NO FRICATIVES IN AUSTRALIA.] Reference
Tropylium: one of them seems to be adjacent to an ´ayin and the other, geminate, so how about this does not need to be the general medial outcome, just a conditioned one?. From Wordnik.com. [Update of my "Diachrony of Pre-IE" document] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Bronze Age Areal influence in Anatolia and Etruscan] Reference
DI; the capitals denote values of syllabic signs were ignored in favour of geminate versus simple: word-initial TI or DI to write the same word, but contrasting AT-TI or AD-DI vs. From Wordnik.com. [Bronze Age Areal influence in Anatolia and Etruscan] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
These results predict the presence of nonequilibrium vibrational populations that would introduce ambiguity into the interpretation of transient ps absorption and Raman spectra and influence the kinetics of sub-ns geminate recombination. From Wordnik.com. [Carl Zimmer in National Geographic on flagellum evolution - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The berry-bird partnership doesn't end there: seeds of some plants - juniper for one - only geminate once they pass through a bird's gut. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Naufragio geminate Fatunu Parumne Tellus in miferas patet Immenfa mortes? hinc miferabili QuafTata terrarum tumultu Stare pavent titubantque regna. From Wordnik.com. [Matthiae Casimiri Sarbievii e Societate Jesu, Carmina] Reference
(NOTE -- The question as to why many of the canals geminate has been a perplexing one to our astronomers. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Mars And Its Inhabitants: A Psychic Revelation] Reference
Therefore like as these your duplicated beneuolences, both that one generally exhibited to all our subiects frequenting that your Realme, and also this the other extended apart to this our right faithfull seruant Anthonie Ienkinson, is right assuredly fastened in our remembrance, not onely for a perpetuall and gratefull memorial, but also for a mutuall and meet compensation: so we desire of your Maiestie, to vouchsafe from hencefoorth to conserue and continue the geminate disposition of your beneuolences, both generally to all our subiects, and also priuately to this, our beloued seruant. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03] Reference
No, I only suggested geminate → creaky. From Wordnik.com. [Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing] Reference
I propose that the geminate step is unnecessary. From Wordnik.com. [Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing] Reference
Didymus: double: geminate. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Leaves, see foliar organs abortion of, 458 adhesion of, by surfaces, 33 to stem, 34 adventitious, 162-165, 509 cornute, 328 displacement of, 86 elongation of, 437 enlargement of, 421 frondiferous, 355 geminate, 352 multiplication of, 358 nature of, 477 palmate-passage of to pinnate, 439 spiral torsion of, 326 supernumerary, 353. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
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