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In words of foreign origin the i causes the palatalization of the preceding consonant n to /ɲ/, and it is pronounced as /j/. This situation occurs when the corresponding genitive form ends in -nii , pronounced as /ɲji/ , not with -ni , pronounced as /ɲi/ (which is a situation typical to the words of Polish origin).
It is also used in Cornish for /k/ at the end of a syllable after a short vowel; only in loanwords (mostly from English) in the Standard Written Form (SWF), [4] more widely in Kernowek Standard. [1] cn is used in English for /n/ in a few words of Greek origin, such as cnidarian. When not initial, it represents /kn/, as in acne.
Its pronunciation is the same as that of the digraph rz , except that rz (unlike ż ) also undergoes devoicing when preceded by a voiceless obstruent. The difference in spelling comes from their historical pronunciations: ż originates from a palatalized /ɡ/ or /z/, while rz evolved from a palatalized r . [1]
The Kuyavian dialect (Polish: gwara kujawska) belongs to the Greater Poland dialect group and is spoken in Kuyavia.It borders the Chełmno-Dobrzyń dialect to the north, the Northern Greater Polish dialect to the west, the Eastern Greater Polish dialect to the south, the Masovian Near Mazovian dialect to the northwest and the Łęczyca dialect to the southeast.
Root Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples rad-, ras-scrape, shave: Latin: rādere, rāsus: abrade, abrasion, abrasive, corrade ...
Creation and spread of the preterite ending -ek (or -k after a vowel) < -ech, contaminated with -(ś)ḿ as well as with the aorist form of the auxiliary verb bych in the south-wst: nosiłek, byłak; elsewhere -em (-m after a vowel), which can voice the stem: zaniuzem, zanius. This form could be a reduction of -chm(y)
The grapheme Ž (minuscule: ž) is formed from Latin Z with the addition of caron (Czech: háček, Slovak: mäkčeň, Slovene: strešica, Serbo-Croatian: kvačica).It is used in various contexts, usually denoting the voiced postalveolar fricative, the sound of English g in mirage, s in vision, or Portuguese and French j.
cleansed / ˈ-ɛ n z d / rhymes with lensed, "provided with a lens or lenses". coif / ˈ-ɔɪ f / rhymes with boyf, slang for "boyfriend". cusp / ˈ-ʌ s p / rhymes with DUSP, an acronym for "dual-specificity phosphatase enzyme". diamond / ˈ-aɪ m ə n d / rhymes with hymened, having a hymen of a specified description, as in the word tough ...