Associations to the word «Affrication»

Wiktionary

AFFRICATION, noun. (phonetics) (uncountable) (of a consonant) Becoming an affricate sound.
AFFRICATION, noun. (countable) A particular instance of such change.

Dictionary definition

AFFRICATION, noun. The conversion of a simple stop consonant into an affricate.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne