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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] →...
- end of the Middle Irish period lenited *m largely lost its nasal quality, lenited *t debuccalised to [h], and lenited *d lost its coronal articulation...
- continuant (/w̃/; perhaps [w̃] or [β̃]). *l *n *r remained, but the non-lenited variants were strengthened to /L N R/ (see Old Irish phonology). Extensive...
- argues via internal reconstruction that intervocalic *k in earlier Korean lenited to Middle Korean /h/. In some pre-Unified Silla transcriptions of Korean...
- 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...
- happens only if the next word starts with a consonant. Medial k maybe lenited to a fricative or completely lost in center and north, eg. varukayilla...
- 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...
- 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...
- - An Gobhar Dubh (4 August 2023). "The homo-organic rule or When not to lenite". Gaelic Resources on the web. Retrieved 4 August 2024. "Skene dhu". Miriam...
- as [ŋɡ]. The light voiced stops /b d/ lenite to [β r] between vowels within a word. The heavy stops do not lenite. When a nasal is followed by a heavy...