Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Pronounced as a palatal sound, as the ll in French fille.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Made ‘liquid,’ as a sound; applied especially to the consonant l as pronounced with a following y sound as in French-ll-, Spanish 11. Italian gl , and English ll in brilliant, million, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Phon.) Applied to certain consonants having a “liquid” or softened sound; e. g., in French, l or ll and gn (like the lli in
million and ni inminion ); in Italian, gl and gn; in Spanish, ll and ñ; in Portuguese, lh and nh.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective phonetics Describing a
palatal orpalatalized consonant , particularly one historically derived from /l/ or /n/.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French, past participle of mouiller, to moisten, palatalize, from Old French moillier, to soften by soaking; see moil.]
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French, wet, moist.
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