postconsonantal

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Coordinate term: postvocalic"
"[…] -able does not attach to verbs ending in a postconsonantal liquid […]"
"This reconstructed *fra/umíu could in turn go back to earlier *fla/umíu[…] The distinction between postconsonantal -l- and -r- is only preserved in Baunei, for which this specific word is unfortunately not attested."

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English consonant Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English consonantal English postconsonantal From post- + consonantal.

post-consonantal (alternative)

postconsonantally

preconsonantal

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