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alternate case: lenition

Math fab Mathonwy (branch) (1,390 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

ny: negative particle (+lenition); bydei: habitual past 3rd singular of bot; byw: to live; namyn: except; tra: while (+lenition); bei: imperfect sunbjunctive

Gallo-Romance languages (2,090 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

/ˈvɛːnet/ (Romance vowel changes) > /ˈvjɛnet/ (diphthongization) > /ˈvjɛned/ (lenition) > /ˈvjɛnd/ (Gallo-Romance final vowel loss) > /ˈvjɛnt/ (final devoicing)

Irish conjugation (1,694 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

imperfect, preterite, and conditional, a consonant-initial stem undergoes lenition (and dialectally is preceded by do), while a vowel-initial stem is prefixed

Middle Welsh (5,006 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

changes that had taken place by the Middle Welsh period, most notably the lenition. Some of the less predictable letter-sound correspondences are the following:

Ṡ (157 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was used only for ẛ and ṡ, while a following h was used for ch ph th; lenition of other letters was not indicated. Later the two systems spread to the

Double-marking language (248 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

kardeşin köpeği. (The consonant change is part of a regular consonant lenition.) Another example is a language in which endings that mark gender or case

Basel German (1,460 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

more lenis sounds in word-initial position—for example, Dag ('day'). This lenition is now often absent due to influence from other dialects, for example,

Hatran Aramaic (2,457 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hatran Aramaic (Aramaic of Hatra, Ashurian or East Mesopotamian) designates a Middle Aramaic dialect, that was used in the region of Hatra and Assur in

Nukunu language (312 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

languages, Nukunu did not partake in either the initial th- lenition before vowels or the lenition of initial k- before vowels. L4 Nukunu at the Australian

Old Irish grammar (10,920 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

triggered by the preceding preposition. There are three types of mutation: Lenition, a weakening of the initial consonant. This generally turns plosives into

Irish name (1,044 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Iníon Mhic "son's daughter"). In both cases the following name undergoes lenition, except for when Nic is followed by ⟨c⟩ or ⟨g⟩. Thus the daughter of Seán

Proto-Anatolian language (1,296 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

characteristic phonological features common to all Anatolian languages is the lenition of the Proto-Indo-European voiceless consonants (including the sibilant

Dependent and independent verb forms (1,651 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

them is shown firstly by the fact that the relative particle a triggers lenition of the following verb in direct relatives but eclipsis of the verb in indirect

Proto-Hlai language (839 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Elimination of Uvulars – loss of Pre-Hlai uvulars *q, *C-q, *C-ɢ Intervocalic Lenition – -p- > -ʋ-, -t- > -ɾ-, -k- > -ɦ-, etc. Initial Devoicing – loss of voiced

Siegerländisch (616 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Siegerländisch (German: Siegerländisch, locally called Sejerlännr Pladd) is the northeasternmost dialect of the Moselle Franconian Dialect Group. Siegerländisch

Sh (digraph) (542 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

usual one in Modern English. In Irish, ⟨sh⟩ represents [h] and marks the lenition of ⟨s⟩; for example mo shaol [mˠə hiːlˠ] "my life" (cf. saol [sˠiːlˠ] "life")

Historical Chinese phonology (6,494 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For

Huon Gulf languages (247 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

lexicosemantic innovations relative to Proto-Oceanic, such as the pervasive lenition of Proto-Oceanic *p to *v, the acquisition of a final *-c in some words

Thuringian dialect (553 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

rounding of the vowels, the weakening of consonants of Standard German (the lenition of the consonants "p," "t," and "k"), a marked difference in the pronunciation

András Cser (140 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Wiley-Blackwell 2020. ISBN 978-1119700609 The Typology and Modelling of Obstruent Lenition and Fortition Processes. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2003. ISBN 9630580365

Gh (digraph) (694 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

/j/ (the voiced palatal approximant). Word-initially it represents the lenition of ⟨g⟩, for example mo ghiall [mˠə ˈjiəl̪ˠ] 'my jaw' (compare giall [ˈɟiəl̪ˠ]

Brithenig (1,779 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

formed by placing feminine singular definite article before it with spirant lenition (ill bordd, lla fordd). Dual forms of natural pairs (e.g. arms, legs),

Samwe language (352 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to [ɹ], which Ouattara represents as [z̞]. As with stops, voicing and lenition are in free variation. /ɾ/ can also be realized as [r] or [ɹ]. /ɾ/ is also

Andalusi Romance (2,362 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ambiguity of the Arabic script: Palatalization of Latin /nn, ll/ to /ɲ, ʎ/ Lenition of intervocalic Latin /p t k s/ to /b d ɡ z/ Much of the controversy over

Irish syntax (4,074 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

which can be roughly translated "don't", causes neither eclipsis nor lenition, and attaches h to a following vowel. (5) Ná don't cailligí lose.2PL.IMP

Castilian Spanish (1,028 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Henriksen, Nicholas; Harper, Sarah K. (December 2016). "Investigating lenition patterns in south-central Peninsular Spanish /spstsk/ clusters". Journal

Salvadoran Spanish (1,404 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

continuum between [s] and [h], representing an intermediate degree of lenition. /x/ is realized as glottal [h]. Intervocalic /d/ often disappears; the

Phonological history of Spanish coronal fricatives (2,623 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

continuum between [s] and [h], representing an intermediate degree of lenition. Brogan 2018 identifies this with the ceceo of Andalusian and other dialects

Pržan (380 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

name Johannes. Another theory derives the name from *Prežganje (through lenition of g), from the verb prežgati 'to burn', referring to iron smelting, which

Irish phonology (7,251 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

alternate with /h/ under a variety of circumstances. For example, as the lenition of /tʲ/ and /ʃ/, /h/ is replaced by [ç] before back vowels, e.g. thabharfainn

Tolmin dialect (211 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

inventory to ie, uo, and a. The dialect has undergone complete akanye and the lenition of g > [ɦ]. Smole, Vera. 1998. "Slovenska narečja." Enciklopedija Slovenije

Uralic languages (7,617 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Samoyedic. The inverse relationship between consonant gradation and medial lenition of stops (the pattern also continuing within the three families where gradation

Pakawan languages (583 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

noted: Vocalization of word-final *l in Cotoname: 'sun', 'straw', red' Lenition of *p to /xw/ in Coahuilteco between vowels: #apel', #mapi Syncope of Apocope

Votic language (2,321 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

innovation, not found in Kreevin Votic or Kukkuzi Votic. Lenition of the clusters *ps, *ks to /hs/ Lenition of the cluster *st to geminate /sː/ Features shared

Muher language (617 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Culture (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag), pp. 205–227. Rose, Sharon (2000). "Velar Lenition in Muher Gurage", in: Lingua Posnaniensis 42, pp. 107–116. v t e

Yabem language (3,766 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Linguistics 32:133–161. Bradshaw, Joel (1998). "Squib: Another look at velar lenition and tonogenesis in Jabêm." Oceanic Linguistics 37:178-181. Bradshaw, Joel

Pannonian Latin (1,010 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

/au̯/ to /a/ (LADICENA < LAODICENA), and /ae̯/ to /e/e ( BONE < BONAE). lenition is attested (EXTRICADO < EXTRICATUS) from the 3rd century. As in other

Nenets languages (742 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

modern languages include: Tundra Nenets: Delabialization of /wʲ/ → /j/ Lenition of initial /k/ → /x/ Simplification of /ʔk/ → /k/ Forest Nenets: Initial

Batroun (1,258 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

as bṯrwn (Arabic: بثرون) in premodern Arabic texts, with the expected lenition of t for an Aramaic term. Elie Mardini suggests the shift of the th to

Cerkno dialect (307 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

, ščìera < sekira 'axe'), and fronting of a > e. It has undergone the lenition of g > [ɦ], long yat > i, short ə > ò, w > j before e and i, and short

Semitic root (1,520 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hebrew and Arabic: Note: The Hebrew fricatives stemming from begadkefat lenition are transcribed here as "ḵ", "ṯ" and "ḇ", to retain their connection with

Onge language (869 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(-gi after etymological consonants, -i after etymological vowels, due to lenition) appears as -i after etymological e but as -gi after excrescent e, e.g

Burgdorf, Hanover (1,125 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

like "ma" and "solche" like "Seuche". Short /ɪ/ merges with short /ʏ/ and lenition of intervocalic consonants is frequent, so that standard "bitte" sounds

Duddingston (1,709 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

+ gwr + lên" meaning "place of the learned man" "tref + y + glyn" with lenition following the definite article, meaning "place of the learned women" "tre

Voiced alveolar fricative (2,732 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

University Press, pp. 74–77, ISBN 978-0-521-65236-0 Honeybone, P (2001), "Lenition inhibition in Liverpool English", English Language and Linguistics, 5 (2):

Order of Cultural Merit (South Korea) (1,442 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Herald. Retrieved October 8, 2018. Martin, Samuel Elmo. ( 1996). Consonant Lenition in Korean and the Macro-Altaic Question, p. 168., p. 168, at Google Books

Ch (digraph) (2,264 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

(or /h/ between vowels) when slender. Word-initially it represents the lenition of ⟨c⟩. Examples: broad in chara /ˈxaɾˠə/ "friend" (lenited), loch /ɫ̪ɔx/

Proto-Kra language (1,826 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Miyake, Marc. 2013. Proto-Kra 'seven'. Miyake, Marc. 2013. Retroflexion or lenition?: Kra-Dai 'eye'. Miyake, Marc. 2013. Thurgood's "Tai-Kadai and Austronesian:

Voiced bilabial plosive (758 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

67–74, doi:10.1017/S0025100312000278 Goblirsch, Kurt (2018), Gemination, Lenition, and Vowel Lengthening: On the History of Quantity in Germanic, Cambridge

Gitxsan language (936 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

differences between dialects include a lexical shift in vowels and stop lenition use present only in the Eastern dialects. The largest differences in language

Proto-Kra–Dai language (1,116 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Proto-Tai spirants and rhotics to have developed from the intervocalic lenition of Proto-Kra–Dai medial obstruents. Voicing in the Proto-Tai initial is

Leo Wetzels (2,214 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Lengthening. Dordrecht, Foris: 296–344. 1988. (With Haike Jacobs). ‘Early French Lenition. A Formal Account of an Integrated Sound Change’, in H.van der Hulst and

Insular Celtic languages (2,459 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

putative Proto-Insular Celtic period. These are: Phonological Changes The lenition of voiceless stops Raising/i-affection Lowering/a-affection Apocope Syncope

Insular Celtic languages (2,459 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

putative Proto-Insular Celtic period. These are: Phonological Changes The lenition of voiceless stops Raising/i-affection Lowering/a-affection Apocope Syncope

Classical Arabic (2,452 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

features of Old Hijazi, such as loss of final short vowels, loss of hamza, lenition of final /-at/ to /-ah/ and lack of nunation, influenced the consonantal

Japonic languages (3,561 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Amami to Northern Okinawan, based on similar vowel systems and patterns of lenition of stops. Pellard suggests a binary division based on shared innovations

Samuel E. Martin (1,275 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1353/ks.1995.0023. JSTOR 23719144. S2CID 161570565. ——— (1996). Consonant Lenition in Korean and the Macro-Altaic Question. Honolulu: University of Hawaii

Wasi-wari (826 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

[vaˈt͡sa], Kamviri vâćo [vaˈt͡so], and Waigali oćä [oˈt͡sæ], and the pervasive lenition of initial stops, such as viṭa [wiʈɘ] "wing", compared to Ashkun pâṭu [paˈʈu]

Alexander Vovin (1,173 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 0-7007-1716-1. Vovin, Alexander. (2003). Once again on lenition in Middle Korean. Korean Studies, 27, pages 85–107. JSTOR 23719571. Vovin

Old Spanish (2,460 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2006. Retrieved 22 June 2002. Hualde, José Ignacio (2013). "Intervocalic lenition and word-boundary effects". Diachronica. 30 (2): 232–266. doi:10.1075/dia

Hybe, Liptovský Mikuláš District (1,064 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

character of the river Hybica. The name was adopted by the Germans before the lenition of Slavic /g/ to /h/ in Slovak (c. 1200) - Geib. The village of Hybe was

Proto-Samoyedic language (1,453 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

system. Other widespread developments include prothesis of *ŋ, initial lenition of *p, and fortition of the semivowels *w, *j. In Nganasan, Nenets and

Voiceless bilabial plosive (1,009 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

67–74, doi:10.1017/S0025100312000278 Goblirsch, Kurt (2018), Gemination, Lenition, and Vowel Lengthening: On the History of Quantity in Germanic, Cambridge

Bardi language (2,073 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

approximants. This is distinct from the morpho-phonological processes involving lenition that occur in the morphological system, such as in allomorphs of the locative

Lloyd (name) (902 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

'holy' during the medieval period, affecting characteristic adjective lenition. A medieval Welsh scribe or a scribe familiar with the Welsh language would

Voiced velar plosive (1,340 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

67–74, doi:10.1017/S0025100312000278 Goblirsch, Kurt (2018), Gemination, Lenition, and Vowel Lengthening: On the History of Quantity in Germanic, Cambridge

Streets and squares in Dublin (1,910 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

out and abandoned in the 1960s, although use of the Irish: séimhiú for lenition continued for some time after. In the mid-20th century new signs were made

Connacht (4,170 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"the Province of Connacht", where Chonnacht is plural genitive case with lenition of the C to Ch. The usual English spelling in Ireland since the Gaelic

Shanghainese (7,792 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(le). 仔 is seen as dated and younger speakers often use 了, likely through lenition and Mandarin influence. 衣裳 í-zaon clothes 買 ma buy 來 le PFV 了。 leq PF 衣裳

Munster Irish (2,997 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and the other dialects. Some Munster speakers, however, use /ɾʲ/ as the lenition equivalent of /ɾˠ/ in at least some cases, as in a rí /ə ɾʲiː/ "O king

Connacht Irish (3,306 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

preposition-article compound sa (i + an "in the") causes eclipsis, where it causes lenition in the Caighdeán and in the other dialects. In some dialects of Connacht

Voiceless dental fricative (1,500 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Giovanna; Barth, Marlen (2005), "Acoustic and sociolingustic aspects of lenition in Liverpool English" (PDF), Studi Linguistici e Filologici Online, 3 (2):

Voiceless alveolar fricative (5,882 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

doi:10.1017/S0022226700013876, S2CID 145672742 Honeybone, P (2001), "Lenition inhibition in Liverpool English", English Language and Linguistics, 5 (2):

Voiceless dental fricative (1,500 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Giovanna; Barth, Marlen (2005), "Acoustic and sociolingustic aspects of lenition in Liverpool English" (PDF), Studi Linguistici e Filologici Online, 3 (2):

Connacht Irish (3,306 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

preposition-article compound sa (i + an "in the") causes eclipsis, where it causes lenition in the Caighdeán and in the other dialects. In some dialects of Connacht

Turicum (3,016 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

widely attested in documents from the 9th century onward, seems to reflect lenition of the intervocalic stop consonant, as well as lowering of short Latin

Brittonic languages (3,905 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

became Welsh chwi, Cornish hwy and Breton c'hwi. Contrast Old Irish síi Lenition: Voiceless plosives become voiced plosives in intervocalic position. d

Prendergast, Pembrokeshire (1,214 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Anglicised form of Bryn y Gest from the Welsh bryn meaning hill and gest, a lenition of cest which means belly or swelling or a deep glen between two mountains

Galician–Portuguese (4,216 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

laxe 'stone', and presents also the elision of unstressed vowels and the lenition of plosive consonants; actually, many Galician Latin charters written during

Anatoly Liberman (1,520 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

concentration of all distinctive features in the root syllable and consonantal lenition as its consequence. 5) Allophones, that is, the phonetic variants of a

Romanian phonology (3,322 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

however, lacks the palatal consonants /ɲ ʎ/, which merged with /j/ by lenition, and the affricate /d͡z/ changed to /z/ by spirantization. Romanian has

Irish people (10,056 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"daughter of the son of"); in both cases the following name undergoes lenition. However, if the second part of the surname begins with the letter C or

Qaqet language (1,993 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

contrastive for some aspectual verb stems. Also, loanwords don't undergo the lenition process: akar 'cars' (from Tok Pisin kar). The velar stop is almost always

Goguryeo language (2,429 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

with Middle Mongolian qoto-n and Manchu hoton 'fortified town', but with lenition of t as in Korean. Chapter 100 of the Book of Wei (mid-6th century) gives

Proto-Uralic language (3,570 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in Mordvinic and *ɣ in Ugric. If a consonant, it probably derives from lenition of *k at a pre-Uralic stage; it is only found in words ending in a non-open

Tamanic languages (379 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in word-final positions their outcomes still differ. *z merges into d. Lenition in intervocalic positions: *-b- > -w- (sometimes deletes). *-d- > -r- (original

Proto-Temotu language (553 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Proto-Oceanic *l and *r merge as *l; Proto-Oceanic *s, *c, *j merge as *s; Lenition of Proto-Oceanic *q to a velar or uvular fricative, either [x] or [χ].

Common Romanian (4,930 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Common Romanian kept all the syllables from the Latin word. absence of lenition - it retained the intervocalic stops intact. It also showed greater conservatism

Gloucester (9,431 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

is a compound of caer, meaning 'fort, stronghold, castle', and loyw, a lenition of gloyw as it would have been pronounced by many speakers, meaning 'bright

Celtiberian language (5,312 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

that Celtiberian had taken the first step in what became more widespread lenition of non-initial (and in some cases even initial) voiced consonants in later

Iatmul language (5,850 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the tap is dominant. Unlike /t/ and /k/, /p/ is sometimes "resistant" to lenition. Lenited /p/ is also always written as v. /t/'s alternation to /ɾ/ is always

Principal parts (1,994 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

irregular verbs can, with only two or three small aberrations (unexpected lenition), be deduced from four principal parts. The principal parts of a Ganda

Phonological history of Hindustani (5,873 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

usually don't have this lenition rule. Loss of nasal aspiration if not pre-vowel: This rule is fed by schwa-deletion and lenitions of Ṽb(h). It explains

Government phonology (1,956 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

de Gruyter. Szigetvári, P. (1999). VC Phonology: a theory of consonant lenition and phonotactics (PDF). Budapest: PhD dissertation, Eötvös Loránd University

Warndarrang language (5,191 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

do continuously." Exceptions occur, however – for example, there is no lenition in the word buwa-buwa "to face punishment by spearing" and the noun mawaɻayimbirjimbir

List of Spanish words of Celtic origin (3,193 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"summer", Welsh haf, Breton hañv, Cornish hav, with typical Celtic m > b lenition saya; akin to Middle Irish sén "snare", semmen "rivet", Welsh hoenyn "snare"

Old Chinese phonology (5,941 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Min dialects. Most authors now assume both *ɡ- and *ɦ-, with subsequent lenition of *ɡ- in non-palatal environments. Similarly *w- is assumed as the labialized

Haitian Creole (9,554 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(27th ed., 2024) Gurevich, Naomi (2004). "Appendix A: Result Summary". Lenition and Contrast: The Functional Consequences of Certain Phonetically Conditioned

Ainu people (18,864 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

from the original on October 9, 2022. Martin, Samuel E. (1996). Consonant lenition in Korean and the Macro-Altaic question. Monograph (in English and Korean)

Phonological history of English consonants (3,353 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(described above), some dialects feature other instances of voicing or lenition of the stops /p/, /t/ and /k/. In Geordie, these stops may be fully voiced

Chuvash language (8,462 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sounds like kuzhakpa. However, geminate consonants do not undergo this lenition. Furthermore, the voiced consonants occurring in Russian are used in modern

Latin phonology and orthography (8,189 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Monophthongization of /ae̯ oe̯/ to /ɛː eː/ respectively. Fortition of /w/ to /β/, then lenition of intervocalic /b/ to /β/. (Later developing to /v/ in many areas.) Phonemic

Portuguese phonology (9,354 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

tendency to elide any stop, including those that may become a continuant by lenition (/b/ > [β], /d/ > [ð], /ɡ/ > [ɣ]), but it has a number of allophones to

Northern Sámi (10,384 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

/oɑ̯/ is fronted to /oæ̯/. /uo̯/ is fronted to /ue̯/. Between vowels, lenition of /b/ to /v/, and of /ɡ/ to /ɣ/, which in modern speech becomes /j/ between

List of Latin-script alphabets (5,202 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Irish traditionally used the dot diacritic (Irish: ponc séimhithe) to mark lenition, forming the dotted letters (litreacha buailte "struck letters") ⟨ḃ, ċ

Classification of the Japonic languages (4,880 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Stanford: Stanford University Press. Martin, Samuel E. 1996. Consonant Lenition in Korean and the Macro-Altaic Question. Honolulu: University of Hawaii

List of Latin words with English derivatives (336 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

loose laxity, relax lenis leni- gentle leniency, lenient, leniment, lenis, lenition, lenitive, lenitude, lenity lens lent- lentil lens, lenticel, lenticular

Okinawan language (4,437 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

resulted from the former change, the aspirate /h/ also arose from the odd lenition of /k/ and /s/, as well as words loaned from other dialects. Before the

Relative clause (12,791 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

relative pronoun and the relativizer are 'a', the relative pronoun triggers lenition of a following consonant, while the relativizer triggers eclipsis (see

Open syllable lengthening (1,977 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Erich Schmidt. pp. 1729–1898. Goblirsch, Kurt Gustav (2018). Gemination, Lenition, and Vowel Lengthening: On the History of Quantity in Germanic. Cambridge

Finnish grammar (7,777 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

originally, words ending in h, k, m were possible as well. Vocalization or lenition is found in addition to any possible consonant gradation, e.g. kuningas

Southeastern Katë dialect (467 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

monophthongization of vowel + v, a progressive suffix -n-, intervocalic consonant lenition (usually sibilants and velars), post-nasal voicing, and merger of Proto-Nuristani

Palatalization in the Romance languages (10,947 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Intervocalically, the sequences /dj ɡj/ could both merge with /j/ in an early type of lenition. Among the first examples of this is the spelling ⟨AIUTOR⟩ for ADIUTOR

Gudang language (5,916 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

this is a WCL loan, as the expected form (through initial deletion or lenition and internal VVnC reduction, Crowley 1983:330-332) would be *ada/*aada

Slavic vocabulary (1,950 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

projections of this change and postulates three independent instigations of lenition, dating the earliest to before 900 AD and the latest to the early thirteenth

Judeo-Esfahani (1,604 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

needs further research. All diphthongs in Judeo-Esfahani are a product of lenition. A few specific rules also apply. The [ou] diphthong decomposes postvocalically

Proto-Ryukyuan language (1,957 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

adjectives, which lead Thorpe to suggest a geminate consonant blocking lenition. However, nouns that don't sound emphatic also receive this irregular conservatism

Judaeo-Spanish (9,876 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hebrew University of Jerusalem Hualde, José Ignacio (2013) "Intervocalic lenition and word-boundary effects: Evidence from Judeo-Spanish". Diachronica 30