compensatorily lengthen (English, verb)
expansion: compensatorily lengthen (third-person singular simple present compensatorily lengthens, present participle compensatorily lengthening, simple past and past participle compensatorily lengthened)
Senses:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: To lengthen (a vowel) upon dropping the consonant that had followed it; to cause to undergo compensatory lengthening.
tags: transitive
Forms:
form: compensatorily lengthens
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: compensatorily lengthening
tags: participle
present
form: compensatorily lengthened
tags: participle
past
form: compensatorily lengthened
tags: past