geminated
Speech parts
1. geminated - Adjective
2. geminated - Verb
Meaning
geminated
simple past and past participle of geminate
geminated (comparative more geminated, superlative most geminated)
(phonology) Of a consonant, pronounced longer and considered as being doubled; geminate.
Synonyms
Examples
Also, the middle radical can be geminated, which is represented by a doubled consonant in transcription (and sometimes in the cuneiform writing itself).
Gemination of nasals, however, is indicated by nūnu+sukun preceding the nasal to be geminated.
It has also been suggested that the āytam was used to represent the voiced implosive (or closing part or the first half) of geminated voiced plosives inside a word.
Long vowels were sometimes marked with acutes, but also sometimes left unmarked or geminated.