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Approximant vs Yod - What's the difference?

approximant | yod |

In phonetics|lang=en terms the difference between approximant and yod

is that approximant is (phonetics) a consonant sound made by slightly narrowing the vocal tract, while still allowing a smooth flow of air liquids and glides are approximants while yod is (phonetics) a palatal approximant.

As nouns the difference between approximant and yod

is that approximant is (phonetics) a consonant sound made by slightly narrowing the vocal tract, while still allowing a smooth flow of air liquids and glides are approximants while yod is or yod can be .

approximant

English

Noun

(Approximant consonant) (en noun)
  • (phonetics) a consonant sound made by slightly narrowing the vocal tract, while still allowing a smooth flow of air. Liquids and glides are approximants.
  • (mathematics) An approximation to the solution of a function, series, etc.

    • See also

    * liquid * glide * consonant ----

    yod

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1856, author=Nesta H. Webster, title=Secret Societies And Subversive Movements, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=In the Rite of Perfection as worked in France and America this Cabalistic influence is shown in those degrees known under the name of the "Ineffable Degrees," derived from the Jewish belief in the mystery that surrounds the Ineflable Name of God. According to the custom of the Jews, the sacred name Jehovah or Jah-ve, composed of the four letters yod , he, vau, he, which formed the Tetragrammaton, was never to be pronounced by the profane, who were obliged to substitute for it the word "Adonai." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1882, author=Albert G. Mackey, title=The Symbolism of Freemasonry, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=It is really a corruption of, or perhaps rather a substitution for, the Hebrew letter (yod ), which is the initial of the ineffable name. }}
  • (phonetics) A palatal approximant.
  • * 1976 , Michael L. Mazzola, Proto-Romance and Sicilian , Peter de Ridder Press, ISBN 90-316-0088-1, page 104:
    • A statement of consonantal changes for Sicilian is dependent on the development of two sets of clusters, consonant plus yod and consonant plus .
  • * 1984 , Frederick B. Agard, A Course in Romance Linguistics , volume 2, Georgetown University Press, ISBN 0-87840-089-3, page 75:
    • Wherever in the West (including northern Italia) the fricative allophone still remains…it now becomes semivocalized as yod', or more probably voiceless ' yod ….
  • * 2008 , Philippe Ségéral & Tobias Scheer, "Positional Factors in Lenition and Fortition", in Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho et al. (eds.), Lenition and Fortition , Mouton de Gruyter, ISBN 978-3-11-020608-1, page 152:
    • Word-initial yod', however, does not strengthen in either of the dialects considered, which respond to Polish ''jab?ko'', ''jagoda'', ''jelén'', ''jutro'' (all ([j-])) "apple, berry, deer, tomorrow" with unaltered initial ' yod .
    Derived terms
    * yod coalescence * yodless

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=Booth Tarkington, title=Gentle Julia, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=An' every blessed minute I stannin' there, can't I hear that ole Miz Blatch nex' do', out in her back yod' an' her front ' yod , an' plum out in the street, hollerin': 'Kitty? }}