palatal hook

plural palatal hooks

1. orthodonticsA 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.

2. raremedia= háček (when it takes the form of a prime)

   l-caron/l-palatal hook

   2009, Theodore Rosendorf, The Typographic Desk Reference, page 130

   3 more examples

   In the Zographensis one finds pьřěaxǫ (John 6:52). Here the liquid is marked with the palatal hook.

   1962, Revue Canadienne des Slavistes, V, page 60

   Kalnyn′ states […] that in the best manuscripts […] the instances of marking of palatal l and n in general exceeds those of failing to do so; moreover, the marking of non-palatal consonants with a palatal hook is rare.

   1968, Robert Magidoff et al., editors, Studies in Slavic Linguistics and Poetics, in Honor of Boris O. Unbegaun, page 42

   In Czech, [the háček] is actually a variant of the palatal hook, which can take the form of caron or apostrophe.

   2004, Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style, 3rd edition, page 304

3. pre 1989 IPAmediaA hamiform diacritic ⟨◌̡⟩ formerly used to mark consonantal palatalisation; superseded by the superscript jay ⟨◌ʲ⟩.