Intervocalically

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    between vowels not-comparable

    "It should moreover be noted that there are no clear cases in which an original voiceless stop is first voiced intervocalically and then acquires a preceding nasal, as would have to be assumed to explain Srd. tsing- < *tseng- from It. ceca."

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"In that language, voiceless consonants tend to be voiced intervocalically."

Etymology

From intervocalic + -ally.

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