spirant
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Fie for Shame; I can't forbear making Use of that Expression of the Satyrist, Tunc immensa cavi spirant mendacia folles.
From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius
Quam tacitæ spirant auræ! vultusque nitentes Contristant veneres, collachrimantque suæ!
From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)
In Late Latin there was a tendency to this spirant pronunciation which appears as early as the beginning of the 2nd century A.D.; by the 3rd century b and consonantal u are inextricably confused.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
The Sco. garth has changed the original voiced spirant to a voiceless one.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
Waith, O. N. væiðr, has kept the spirant, but faid, a "company of hunters," has changed it to d.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
