-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
- 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...
