palatal hook

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palatal hook

noun palatal hooks

A small hook for attaching elastic bands on the internal side of braces fixed to the upper teeth. For quotations using this term, see Citations:palatal hook.
rare = háček (when it takes the form of a prime) In the Zographensis one finds pьřěaxǫ (John 6:52). Here the liquid is marked with the palatal hook.
pre 1989 IPA A hamiform diacritic ⟨◌̡⟩ formerly used to mark consonantal palatalisation; superseded by the superscript jay ⟨◌ʲ⟩.

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@misc{palatal_hook_2026,
  title = {palatal hook},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/palatal%20hook},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}