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Strident

Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2020 10:35 am
by William A Hupy
This word runs the gamut, from PIE, Greek, Latin, French And into our English speaking laps. The PIE root is strei, meaning screech.

Re: Strident

Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2023 2:39 pm
by Slava
And the noun form for the noise is stridor. There's also a later adjective version, stridulous, which gives us a verb, stridulate.