egressive

Speech parts

1. egressive - Noun

2. egressive - Adjective

Meaning

Going or directed outward.

(phonetics, of a speech sound) Uttered by pushing air out through the mouth or nose.

(geology) descriptive of a place or channel through which something such as water or lava leaves an area.
This ancient wash was an egressive channel that once drained a lake.

egressive (plural egressives)

(phonetics) A speech sound in which the air stream is created by pushing air out through the mouth or nose.

Antonyms

Examples

Similarly, voiced clicks require a simultaneous pulmonic egressive airstream to make the voicing possible. Source: Internet

One of the clicks in Damin is actually an egressive click, using the tongue to compress the air in the mouth for an outward (egressive) "spurt". Source: Internet

Some languages have stops made with other mechanisms as well: ejective stops ( glottalic egressive ), implosive stops ( glottalic ingressive ), or click consonants ( lingual ingressive ). Source: Internet

There are seven or eight known releases, not counting slapped or egressive clicks. Source: Internet

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