obstruent

Etymology

Latin obstruēns

adj

  1. Causing obstruction; blocking up.
    an obstruent medicine

noun

  1. (phonetics) A consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway, causing turbulence; a plosive, fricative, or affricate.
    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. 2003, Bhadiraju Krishnamurti, The Dravidian Languages, Cambridge University Press
  2. (medicine) Anything that obstructs, especially in the passages of the body.

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