How do you use Gemination in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like repetition or duplication, plus the exact meaning.
Gemination meaning
- A doubling.
- The phenomenon of a consonant being pronounced for an audibly longer period of time than is normal; an instance of such lengthened pronunciation.
Synonyms of Gemination
Using Gemination
- The main meaning on this page is: A doubling. | The phenomenon of a consonant being pronounced for an audibly longer period of time than is normal; an instance of such lengthened pronunciation.
- Useful related words include: repetition, duplication, copying.
- In the example corpus, gemination often appears in combinations such as: gemination of, of gemination.
Context around Gemination
- Average sentence length in these examples: 18.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 5 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gemination
- In this selection, "gemination" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 18.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, length, consonant, predictive, though and indicating stand out and add context to how "gemination" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include loss of gemination and and n gemination though phonemic. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gemination" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gemination
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Gemination was not marked. (4 words)
But gemination does occur between words. (6 words)
Consonant length (gemination) is also phonemic. (6 words)
In Aramaic and Hebrew, all non-emphatic stops occurring singly after a vowel were softened to fricatives, leading to an alternation that was often later phonemicized as a result of the loss of gemination. (34 words)
Where the syllable onset is a geminate consonant, e.g. in Italian, the consonant is commonly split by the stress mark, which means that the length sign is not used for gemination. (32 words)
The 't' at the end of participles ending -nut, -rut, -lut, -sut (or -nyt etc.) is often dropped when no consonant follows, or replaced by gemination of the following consonant. (30 words)
Example sentences (13)
All of these languages do have the "northwest" characteristics of lenition and loss of gemination.
But gemination does occur between words.
Consonant length (gemination) is also phonemic.
Gemination of nasals, however, is indicated by nūnu+sukun preceding the nasal to be geminated.
Gemination was not marked.
However, syllables can be analyzed as compositions of long and short phonemes, as in Finnish and Japanese, where consonant gemination and vowel length are independent.
In Aramaic and Hebrew, all non-emphatic stops occurring singly after a vowel were softened to fricatives, leading to an alternation that was often later phonemicized as a result of the loss of gemination.
In such cases, the terms fortis is sometimes used for aspiration or gemination, whereas lenis is used for single, tenuous, or voiced stops.
Orthography Traditional Tifinagh Common forms of the letters are illustrated at left, including various ligatures of t and n. Gemination, though phonemic, is not indicated in Tifinagh.
Some of these features, e.g. gemination indicating the non-past/imperfect, are generally attributed to Afroasiatic.
The second is predictive gemination of initial consonants on morpheme boundaries.
The 't' at the end of participles ending -nut, -rut, -lut, -sut (or -nyt etc.) is often dropped when no consonant follows, or replaced by gemination of the following consonant.
Where the syllable onset is a geminate consonant, e.g. in Italian, the consonant is commonly split by the stress mark, which means that the length sign is not used for gemination.
Common combinations with gemination
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- gemination of 3×
- of gemination 2×