gheada

English

Etymology

From Galician gheada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /heɪˈɑːdə/, /xeɪ-/, /ɡeɪ-/

Noun

gheada (uncountable)

1. (phonetics) the lenition of the voiced velar stop in the Galician language.
   • 1990, Berkeley Linguistics Society, Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley Linguistics Society, v.16, page 6:

     This variety is a non-standard phonological register characterized by gheada [heáða], that is, the fricativization and devoicing of the voiced velar stop: /ɡ/ -> [ɣ] (other variants are [x], [h]; for a review of the phenomenon see for example Alvarez Cáccamo 1989b:261-65).

   • 2007, Jaine Beswick, Regional Nationalism in Spain: Language Use and Ethnic Identity in Galicia, Multilingual Matters, page 141:

     In contrast to the phenomena of open and close vowels, the presence or absence of the gheada is still one of the most prominent phonetic features of present-day Galician.

   • 2008, Mercedes Niño-Murcia, Jason Rothman, Bilingualism and Identity: Spanish at the Crossroads With Other Languages, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 75:

     In addition to these feelings of inappropriateness, there are two features of the local dialects that still seem to be stigmatized among my informants: the gheada and the Galician pitch pattern.

Galician

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɡeˈada/ [ɡeˈa.ð̞ɐ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /ɡeˈada/ [ɡeˈa.ð̞ɐ]
• IPA^(key): (gheada) /ħeˈada/ [ħeˈa.ð̞ɐ]

• Rhymes: -ada

Noun

gheada f (plural gheadas)

1. (linguistics, phonetics) gheada

Descendants

• → English: gheada

Further reading

• “gheada”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xeˈada/ [xeˈa.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -ada

Noun

gheada f (plural gheadas)

1. gheada