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comparative more obstruent, superlative most obstruent
Causing obstruction; blocking up. examples
plural obstruents
(phonetics) A consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway, causing turbulence; a plosive, fricative, or affricate. quotations examples
Lehmann (1998:77) and Steever (1998: 14, 16) considered āytam an allophone of Tamil /y/ before obstruents, but there is no real evidence for this assumption.
2003, Bhadiraju Krishnamurti, The Dravidian Languages, Cambridge University Press
(medicine) Anything that obstructs, especially in the passages of the body. examples