Definition of "labialized" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of labialize. (verb)

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• "However, labialized stops, palatalized stops and now ejectives seem to me to be purely imaginative overkill, based on nothing concrete."
• "However, my explanation is that, unlike other labialized phonemes in PIE, *h₃ was an aspirate and therefore particularly prone to erosion compared to the more acoustically salient labialized stops: *kʷ, *gʷ and *ghʷ."
• "Rob: "As for *h3, it may have been labialized, although other labial(ized) phonemes do not seem to cause o-coloring (at least not consistently).""