-
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] →...
-
toast include sláinte
mhaith "good health" in
Irish (mhaith
being the
lenited form of
maith "good"). In Irish, the
response to sláinte is sláinte agatsa...
-
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...
-
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...
- in
leniting the
initial ⟨t⟩, thus one
hears thá in
County Waterford and
County Tipperary, and tha in
northern Scotland. West
Munster also
lenites the...
-
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...
- 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...
- erôou⟩
Sahidic and
Bohairic preserve */ˈe/
before /ʔ/ (etymological or from
lenited /t r j/ or tonic-syllable coda /w/),:
Sahidic and
Bohairic ⟨ne⟩ /neʔ/ 'to...
