obstruent

Learned borrowing from Latin obstruēns, obstruentis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɒbstɹuːənt/

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obstruent (comparative more obstruent, superlative most obstruent)

1. Causing obstruction; blocking up.

   Synonym: hindering

   an obstruent medicine

• deobstruent

• obstruency

obstruent (plural obstruents)

2. (phonetics) A consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway, causing turbulence; a plosive, fricative, or affricate.

   Antonym: sonorant

   Hypernym: consonant

   Hyponyms: plosive, fricative, affricate

   Coordinate term: continuant

   • 2003, Bhadiraju Krishnamurti, The Dravidian Languages‎^[1], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:

     Lehmann (1998:77) and Steever (1998: 14, 16) considered āytam an allophone of Tamil /y/ before obstruents, but there is no real evidence for this assumption.

3. (medicine) Anything that obstructs, especially in the passages of the body.

• final obstruent devoicing

• buttoners, rebuttons

obstruent

1. third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of obstruer

• butterons

obstruent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of obstruō