English Explanatory Dictionary

thorn cluster

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One of three consonant clusters historically believed by some scholars to have existed in Proto-Indo-European, all of which ended with the IPA sound /θ/ (then often symbolized as þ).
  2. Any of the reconstructed consonant clusters that have replaced the original thorn clusters in modern scholarship, which typically no longer contain the IPA /θ/.

Word forms

thorn cluster thorn clusters
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