English to Nepali Meaning of geminate - geminate


Geminate :
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Definitions of geminate in English
Noun(1) a doubled or long consonant
Verb(1) form by reduplication(2) occur in pairs(3) arrange in pairs(4) arrange or combine in pairs
Examples of geminate in English
(1) Some geminates , however, are clearly more morphologically distinct than others are.(2) In a slight twist to our discussion of orthographic gemination , I found myself mis-spelling ‘emporer’.(3) Like English geminates and schwas, Hebrew matres lectionis have a more ambiguous relation to speech than graphemes that code consonants, for example, and are thus coded less effectively.(4) Because gemination is common in Dravidian languages, double consonants in written English are often geminated : ‘sum-mer’ for summer and ‘sil-lee’ for silly.(5) He also brings up some unexpected intrusions of gemination , asking how it happened that "the Italian word ‘regata’ entered English as ‘regatta’."(6) In another good example of orthographic gemination , I was just reading something that contained the well-attested spelling ‘dissapointed’, which also seems to partake of the feeling of a zero-sum transfer of doubling.(7) For many words, however, the most common misspelling seems to be to violate conservation of geminates , and write the word with no doubled consonants at all.(8) Because gemination is common in Dravidian languages, double consonants in written English are often geminated: ‘sum-mer’ for summer and ‘sil-lee’ for silly.(9) This item was recorded with gemination, but the precise status of gemination in the language is not easy to determine.
Related Phrases of geminate
(1) geminate ::
geminate
Synonyms
Verb
1. reduplicate ::
reduplicate
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