delimiters. In linguistics, lenition is a sound change that alters consonants, making them more sonorous. The word lenition itself means "softening" or...

consonant mutations: lenition (Irish: séimhiú [ˈʃeːvʲuː]) and eclipsis (urú [ˈʊɾˠuː]) (the alternative names, aspiration for lenition and nasalisation for...

/ˈvɛːnet/ (Romance vowel changes) > /ˈvjɛnet/ (diphthongization) > /ˈvjɛned/ (lenition) > /ˈvjɛnd/ (Gallo-Romance final vowel loss) > /ˈvjɛnt/ (final devoicing)...

contexts falling intonation in most types of sentences, including questions lenition and extreme sandhi phenomena Due to the geographic concentration of Gaelic...

series of consonants in Romance languages. Stop consonants shifted by lenition in Vulgar Latin in some areas. The voiced labial consonants /b/ and /w/...

the word used by modern phoneticians, and linguists prefer to speak of lenition here. Historically, the Celtic initial mutations originated from progressive...

however ⟨h⟩ placed after a consonant is known as a "séimhiú" and indicates lenition of that consonant; ⟨h⟩ began to replace the original form of a séimhiú...

Gaulish. Examples include sandhi phenomena (liaison, resyllabification, lenition), the loss of unstressed syllables and the vowel system (such as raising...

(lenition marking the genitive case of a masculine noun) Seán "John" – a Sheáin! "John!" (lenition as part of the vocative case, the vocative lenition...

fossilized historical form. In older Gaelic, a system of blocked lenition meant that lenition did not occur when the adjective started with a consonant of...

67–74, doi:10.1017/S0025100312000278 Goblirsch, Kurt (2018), Gemination, Lenition, and Vowel Lengthening: On the History of Quantity in Germanic, Cambridge...

and syllabic consonants. Affrication of /t/ as [ts] word-initially and lenition to [θ̠] intervocalically and word-finally. The latter type of allophony...

where the dot denotes lenition, and is called a ponc séimhithe or buailte "dot of lenition": ḃ ċ ḋ ḟ ġ ṁ ṗ ṡ ṫ. Alternatively, lenition may be represented...

is the equivalent of /nk/ under weakening consonant gradation (type of lenition) and thus occurs only medially, e.g. Helsinki – Helsingin kaupunki (city...

Common to most Eastern Iranian languages is a particularly widespread lenition of the voiced stops *b, *d, *g. Between vowels, these have been lenited...

imperfect, preterite, and conditional, a consonant-initial stem undergoes lenition (and dialectally is preceded by do), while a vowel-initial stem is prefixed...

(rather than preNATO). In languages such as Scottish Gaelic and Irish, where lenition (initial consonant mutation) is commonplace, acronyms must also be modified...

when not prefixed to a word initial vowel or after a consonant to show lenition, primarily occurs word initially in loanwords, e.g. hata "hat". ⟨k⟩ is...

[lɐˈgos̺tɐ] > [lɐˈgoʃtɐ] (EP) ~ [laˈgostɐ] (BP) [laˈgoʃtɐ] ~ (AP) (lobster) Lenition—consonant clusters, especially long (geminate) consonants, were simplified:...

"daughter of the son of"); in both cases the following name undergoes lenition. However, if the second part of the surname begins with the letter C or...

The history of the Romanian language started in Roman provinces north of the Jireček Line in Classical antiquity. There are three main hypotheses around...

Aramaic of Hatra, Hatran Aramaic or Ashurian designates a Middle Aramaic dialect, that was used in the region of Hatra and Assur in northeastern parts...

The overdot was used to indicate lenition of ⟨ḟ, ṡ⟩, while the following ⟨h⟩ was used for ⟨ch, ph, th⟩. The lenition of other letters was not generally...

has two mutations: lenition and eclipsis, found on nouns and verbs in a variety of environments; adjectives can undergo lenition but not eclipsis. In...

more lenis sounds in word-initial position—for example, Dag ('day'). This lenition is now often absent due to influence from other dialects, for example,...

articulation) Consonant harmony Crasis Dissimilation Labialisation Language game Lenition Metathesis Palatalization Pharyngealisation Sandhi Velarization Vowel harmony...

increases the degree of stricture. It is the opposite of the more common lenition. For example, a fricative or an approximant may become a stop (i.e. [v]...

form or isolation form). Types of connected speech principles Coalescence Lenition Elision Assimilation Simplification Liaison Juncture Morphophonology Phonology...

of the changes that are typical of Western Romance languages, including lenition of intervocalic consonants (thus Latin vīta > Spanish vida). The diphthongization...

infinite verb etten (to eat) is pronounced [ˈɛtn̩]. Tweants applies extensive lenition in its spoken form. All strong plosives may be pronounced as their weak...