Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
RHOTIC
Etymology
Adjective
rhotic (not comparable)
(linguistics, of an English accent) That allows the phoneme /ɹ/ even when not followed by a vowel, as in bar (/bɑːɹ/) and bard or barred (/bɑːɹd/); (of an English speaker) who speaks with such an accent.
(linguistics, phonetics, of a phoneme) Having a sound quality associated with the letter R; having the sound of any of certain IPA symbols, including /ɹ/, /ɻ/, /ɚ/, /ɝ/ and /r/.
Antonyms
• non-rhotic
Noun
rhotic (plural rhotics)
(phonetics) A rhotic consonant or rhotic vowel (R-coloured vowel).
Hyponyms
• (rhotic phoneme): R-coloured vowel
Anagrams
• Ch'orti', Chorti, hortic, thoric, tricho-, trochi
Source: Wiktionary
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