devoiced
adj. 清音化的
vt. 使清音化(devoice 的过去式及过去分词)
例句
Devoiced and voiced w- in where and so forth coexisted for a long time.
清音的w和在单词where等词中浊音的w共存了一段时间。
Eg My wife is always ticked off in small things and I can't stand her to get devoiced.
我的妻子总是在小事上大发雷霆,我忍受不了她了,想离婚。
Apparently, it was this devoiced, “whispered” w for which Middle English scribes, under French influence, invented the spelling wh-.
显然,正是由于这个清音化,“whispered”中的w在中古英语的文书中,受到法语的影响,发明了拼写wh-。