Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

palatal hook

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.37 in modern English

Syllables: palatal hook
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A small hook for attaching elastic bands on the internal side of braces fixed to the upper teeth.

noun

= háček (when it takes the form of a prime)

noun

A hamiform diacritic ⟨◌̡⟩ formerly used to mark consonantal palatalisation; superseded by the superscript jay ⟨◌ʲ⟩.

Example Sentences

"For quotations using this term, see Citations:palatal hook."
"In the Zographensis one finds pьřěaxǫ (John 6:52). Here the liquid is marked with the palatal hook."
"Kalnyn′ states […] that in the best manuscripts […] the instances of marking of palatal l and n in general exceeds those of failing to do so; moreover, the marking of non-palatal consonants with a palatal hook is rare."
"In Czech, [the háček] is actually a variant of the palatal hook, which can take the form of caron or apostrophe."
"l-caron/l-palatal hook"

Inflected Forms

palatal hooks (plural)

Questions

What does palatal hook mean?: A small hook for attaching elastic bands on the internal side of braces fixed to the upper teeth.

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