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cor·o·nal

(kôr′ə-nəl, kŏr′-, kə-rō′nəl)

1. A garland, wreath, or circlet for the head.

2. Linguistics A coronal consonant.

adj.

1. Of or relating to a corona, especially of the head.

2. Of, relating to, or having the direction of the coronal suture or of the plane dividing the body into front and back portions.

3. Linguistics Articulated by raising the blade of the tongue, as (t) in tip and (n) in night.

[Middle English, from Latin corōnālis, of a crown, from corōna, crown; see crown.]

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coronal

1. poetic a circlet for the head; crown

2. a wreath or garland

3. (Anatomy) anatomy short for coronal suture

adj

4. of or relating to a corona or coronal

5. (Phonetics & Phonology) phonetics a less common word for retroflex

[C16: from Late Latin corōnālis belonging to a crown]

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cor•o•nal

(n. ˈkɔr ə nl, ˈkɒr-; adj. usu. kəˈroʊn l)

n.

1. a crown; coronet.

2. a garland.

adj.

3. of or pertaining to a coronal or corona.

4. (of a speech sound) articulated with the blade of the tongue raised.

[1300–50; Middle English < Latin corōnālis= Latin corōn(a) crown + -ālis -al¹]

co•ro′nal•ly, adv.

coronal

Relating to the crown of the head.

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Noun

coronal - flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes

chaplet, lei, wreath, garland

crown - a wreath or garland worn on the head to signify victory

floral arrangement, flower arrangement - a decorative arrangement of flowers

bay wreath, laurel wreath, laurel - (antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory

Translations

koronal

coronaire

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He has thrown off his paper cap, and you see that his hair is not thick and straight, like Adam's, but thin and wavy, allowing you to discern the exact contour of a coronal arch that predominates very decidedly over the brow.

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Chaplets too, resembling in their arrangement the strawberry coronal worn by an English peeress, and composed of intertwined leaves and blossoms, often crowned their temples; and bracelets and anklets of the same tasteful pattern were frequently to be seen.

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Rappit, the hair-dresser, with his well-anointed coronal locks tending wavily upward, like the simulated pyramid of flame on a monumental urn, seemed to her at that moment the most formidable of her contemporaries, into whose street at St.

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(1) The onsets of the modifiers in data set (1) are all coronals, which is often considered to be a cross-linguistically unmarked place of articulation.

(2) The second data set looks further into what happens when a base adjective has a coronal onset.

Problem Set: Sui Adjective Modifiers

Irish is characterized by a process of lenition, by which (among other changes) the coronals t, d, s become h, [??], h under certain morphosyntactically determined circumstances.

In particular, the goal of this article is to analyze exceptional behavior at the contact of two coronals in Irish, where unmutated forms appear in certain circumstances although mutated forms are otherwise expected.

Ni Chiosain (1991) discusses the mechanics of Coronal Blocking, but she does not examine its environment or the situations in which it fails to apply (i.e., cases where coronals do undergo lenition after other coronals).

In compounds but not other complex NPs, lenition is blocked when two coronals come in contact (4); moreover, in compounds but not other complex NPs, s undergoes fortition to t rather than lenition to h after n or l in some dialects.