thorn cluster
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
thorn cluster (plural thorn clusters)
- (linguistics) 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).
- (linguistics) Any of the reconstructed consonant clusters that have replaced the original thorn clusters in modern scholarship, which typically no longer contain the IPA /θ/.