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Words related to velar
ve·lar
V v -
labiovelar
pronounced with simultaneous bilabial and velar articulations, as w. -
velarize
to pronounce with velar articulation. -
-ing
-ing is added to verbs to form present participles. Present participles are used with auxiliary verbs to make continuous tenses. They are also used like adjectives, describing a person or thing as doing something. -
agma
the symbol (ŋ), used to represent a velar nasal consonant, as in long (lɒŋ ) or tank (tæŋk ) -
centum
denoting or belonging to the Indo-European languages in which original velar stops (k) were not palatalized, namely languages of the Hellenic, Italic, Celtic, Germanic, Anatolian, and Tocharian branches -
goidelic
Also called Q-Celtic. the subbranch of Celtic in which the Proto-Indo-European kw -sound remained a velar. Irish and Scottish Gaelic belong to Goidelic.