- delimiters. In linguistics,
lenition is a
sound change that
alters consonants,
making them “weaker” in some way. The word
lenition itself means "softening"...
-
consonant mutations:
lenition (Irish: séimhiú [ˈʃeːvʲuː]) and
eclipsis (urú [ˈʊɾˠuː]) (the
alternative names,
aspiration for
lenition and
nasalisation for...
- /ˈvɛːnet/ (Romance
vowel changes) > /ˈvjɛnet/ (diphthongization) > /ˈvjɛned/ (
lenition) > /ˈvjɛnd/ (Gallo-Romance
final vowel loss) > /ˈvjɛnt/ (final devoicing)...
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contexts falling intonation in most
types of sentences,
including questions lenition and
extreme sandhi phenomena Due to the
geographic concentration of Gaelic...
- when not
prefixed to a word
initial vowel or
after a
consonant to show
lenition,
primarily occurs word
initially in loanwords, e.g. hata "hat". ⟨k⟩ is...
- Gaulish.
Examples include sandhi phenomena (liaison, resyllabification,
lenition), the loss of
unstressed syllables and the
vowel system (such as raising...
- the word used by
modern phoneticians, and
linguists prefer to
speak of
lenition here. Historically, the
Celtic initial mutations originated from progressive...
-
series of
consonants in
Romance languages. Stop
consonants shifted by
lenition in
Vulgar Latin in some areas. The
voiced labial consonants /b/ and /w/...
- (
lenition marking the
genitive case of a
masculine noun) Seán "John" – a Sheáin! "John!" (
lenition as part of the
vocative case, the
vocative lenition...
- ⟨h⟩
placed after a
consonant is
known as a "séimhiú" and
indicates the
lenition of that consonant; ⟨h⟩
began to
replace the
original form of a séimhiú...
