dentilabialize (English, verb)
expansion: dentilabialize (third-person singular simple present dentilabializes, present participle dentilabializing, simple past and past participle dentilabialized)
Senses:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Of Middle Chinese initial consonants /p/, /pʰ/, /b/, and /m/: to develop into /f/, /fʰ/, /v/, and /ʋ/ (or further into /f/, /w/, etc).
Forms:
form: dentilabializes
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dentilabializing
tags: participle
present
form: dentilabialized
tags: participle
past
form: dentilabialized
tags: past
form: dentilabialise
tags: alternative