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- normal lenited forms [β, ð, ɣ]. In the modern Celtic languages, lenition of the "fricating" type is usually denoted by adding an h to the lenited letter...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- to decorative or self-consciously traditional contexts. The dot above a lenited letter in Gaelic type is usually replaced by a following ⟨h⟩ in Roman type...
- final-obstruent devoicing: /b/ > [p], /d/ > [t], /ɡ/ > [k]. Voiced stops become lenited to approximants in syllable onsets, after continuants: /b/ > [β], /d/ >...
- lenition of the voiced stops *b, *d, *g. Between vowels, these have been lenited also in most Western Iranian languages, but in Eastern Iranian, spirantization...
- 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...