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Galenite
Galenite Ga*le"nite, n. (Min.) Galena; lead ore.
Melenite
Melenite Mel"e*nite, n. [Gr. me`li honey.] An explosive of great destructive power; -- so called from its color, which resembles honey.
Selenite
Selenite Sel"e*nite, n. (Chem.) A salt of selenious acid.
Selenite
Selenite Sel"e*nite, n. [L. selenites, Gr. ???? (sc. ???), from ??? the moon. So called from a fancied resemblance in luster or appearance to the moon.] (Min.) A variety of gypsum, occuring in transparent crystals or crystalline masses.

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- movements down and to the right in the above table. In other cases, sounds are lenited and normalized at the same time; examples would be direct changes [b] →...
- Mixtec and 46% of Cacaloxtepec Mixtec. The voiceless stops /t tʲ k/ lenite lenite in prosodically weak positions: /t/ becomes [d] or [ð], /tʲ/ becomes...
- e, i, oi, y Icelandic /c/ soft /k/ hard /ɣ/ hard, lenited; see Icelandic phonology /j/ soft, lenited Irish /ɡ/ Except after i or before e, i /ɟ/ After...
- Latin a was preserved (Lat. mare > Oc. mar, Fr. mer). Intervocalic -t- was lenited to /d/ rather than lost (Lat. vitam > Oc. vida, Fr. vie). Examples of pan-Occitan...
- final-obstruent devoicing: /b/ > [p], /d/ > [t], /ɡ/ > [k]. Voiced stops become lenited to approximants in syllable onsets, after continuants: /b/ > [β], /d/ >...
- suffixes. The (dictionary form) infinitive bears the suffix -ta/-tä (often lenited to -(d)a/-(d)ä due to consonant gradation). There is a so-called "p****ive...
- the second part of the surname begins with the letter C or G, it is not lenited after Nic.[citation needed] Thus the daughter of a man named Ó Maolagáin...
- tsiopa "in the shop", compared to the Standard sa siopa (the Standard lenites only feminine nouns in the dative in these cases). Eclipsis of ⟨f⟩ after...
- affricate) and nasals are voiced and lenited between vowels, are voiced in nasal-stop clusters, and are lenited (but not voiced) following h. Voiceless...
- *h, *j, and *w could be geminated. Between vowels short consonants were lenited. The major difference between Proto-Central Numic and Proto-Numic was the...