delimiters. In linguistics, lenition is a sound change that alters consonants, making them more sonorous. The word lenition itself means "softening" or... 33 KB (3,066 words) - 21:10, 14 April 2024 |
Irish initial mutations (section Lenition) consonant mutations: lenition (Irish: séimhiú [ˈʃeːvʲuː]) and eclipsis (urú [ˈʊɾˠuː]) (the alternative names, aspiration for lenition and nasalisation for... 22 KB (1,951 words) - 16:38, 3 April 2024 |
Romance languages (section Lenition) series of consonants in Romance languages. Stop consonants shifted by lenition in Vulgar Latin in some areas. The voiced labial consonants /b/ and /w/... 171 KB (16,356 words) - 16:07, 15 April 2024 |
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... 26 KB (2,588 words) - 07:52, 17 April 2024 |
History of French (section Lenition) Gaulish. Examples include sandhi phenomena (liaison, resyllabification, lenition), the loss of unstressed syllables and the vowel system (such as raising... 80 KB (9,554 words) - 17:23, 3 April 2024 |
Consonant mutation (section Lenition) the word used by modern phoneticians, and linguists prefer to speak of lenition here. Historically, the Celtic initial mutations originated from progressive... 36 KB (2,582 words) - 12:21, 27 March 2024 |
(lenition marking the genitive case of a masculine noun) Seán "John" – a Sheáin! "John!" (lenition as part of the vocative case, the vocative lenition... 116 KB (12,472 words) - 12:42, 28 April 2024 |
and syllabic consonants. Affrication of /t/ as [ts] word-initially and lenition to [θ̠] intervocalically and word-finally. The latter type of allophony... 34 KB (3,399 words) - 09:05, 15 April 2024 |
67–74, doi:10.1017/S0025100312000278 Goblirsch, Kurt (2018), Gemination, Lenition, and Vowel Lengthening: On the History of Quantity in Germanic, Cambridge... 24 KB (915 words) - 18:24, 28 March 2024 |
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... 67 KB (3,058 words) - 09:10, 10 April 2024 |
imperfect, preterite, and conditional, a consonant-initial stem undergoes lenition (and dialectally is preceded by do), while a vowel-initial stem is prefixed... 32 KB (1,693 words) - 21:46, 20 February 2024 |
Common to most Eastern Iranian languages is a particularly widespread lenition of the voiced stops *b, *d, *g. Between vowels, these have been lenited... 13 KB (1,284 words) - 23:05, 1 April 2024 |
is the equivalent of /nk/ under weakening consonant gradation (type of lenition) and thus occurs only medially, e.g. Helsinki – Helsingin kaupunki (city... 96 KB (9,366 words) - 12:30, 26 April 2024 |
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... 116 KB (11,429 words) - 06:14, 27 April 2024 |
Hatran Aramaic (section Lenition) 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... 32 KB (2,455 words) - 02:33, 6 April 2024 |
History of Portuguese (section Lenition) [lɐˈgos̺tɐ] > [lɐˈgoʃtɐ] (EP) ~ [laˈgostɐ] (BP) [laˈgoʃtɐ] ~ (AP) (lobster) Lenition—consonant clusters, especially long (geminate) consonants, were simplified:... 45 KB (4,828 words) - 00:20, 24 April 2024 |
The history of the Romanian language started in Roman provinces north of the Jireček Line in Classical antiquity. There are three main hypotheses around... 107 KB (13,255 words) - 08:23, 11 April 2024 |
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... 22 KB (1,808 words) - 22:33, 6 April 2024 |
"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... 104 KB (10,106 words) - 19:51, 25 April 2024 |
has two mutations: lenition and eclipsis, found on nouns and verbs in a variety of environments; adjectives can undergo lenition but not eclipsis. In... 120 KB (8,464 words) - 21:29, 20 April 2024 |
form or isolation form). Types of connected speech principles Coalescence Lenition Elision Assimilation Simplification Liaison Juncture Morphophonology Phonology... 1 KB (98 words) - 22:46, 3 February 2024 |
Basel German (section Lenition of consonants) 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,... 12 KB (1,460 words) - 02:56, 4 February 2024 |
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]... 7 KB (731 words) - 17:43, 5 October 2023 |
articulation) Consonant harmony Crasis Dissimilation Labialisation Language game Lenition Metathesis Palatalization Pharyngealisation Sandhi Velarization Vowel harmony... 30 KB (3,288 words) - 11:24, 31 March 2024 |
forms: an and na. An may cause lenition, eclipsis, or neither. Na may cause eclipsis, but the only instance of lenition with na is with the genitive singular... 31 KB (2,153 words) - 15:49, 21 March 2024 |
Tweants dialect (section Lenition) 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... 27 KB (3,158 words) - 08:40, 24 February 2024 |