thorn cluster (English, noun)
expansion: thorn cluster (plural thorn clusters)
Senses:
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glosses: One of three consonant clusters historically believed by some scholars to have existed in Proto-Indo-European, all of which ended with the IPA sound /θ/ (then often symbolized as þ).
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Any of the reconstructed consonant clusters that have replaced the original thorn clusters in modern scholarship, which typically no longer contain the IPA /θ/.
Forms:
form: thorn clusters
tags: plural