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Talk:Lenition
Senin, 2024-09-02 20:41:11

In my limited experience of discussion of Gaelic, I've seen "lenition" used much more often than in English-language discussion of Welsh. When people are...

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Talk:Irish initial mutations
Senin, 2026-01-19 03:31:38

"l" has nothing to do with it. /h/ is the usual lenition of /s/, and /t/ is an exceptional lenition of /s/ after the definite article an (see Irish initial...

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Talk:Spirantization
Selasa, 2008-02-26 13:33:52

From lenition: I recognize [pf] and [ts] from German. I can't find any info on when these affricates were lost in English. Or were they not in Proto-Germanic...

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Talk:Spanish language in California
Sabtu, 2026-02-21 00:42:45

(talk) 17:42, 20 February 2026 (UTC) In the article, it is stated that "Lenition of /y/ to /j/" occurs in Spanish varieties of California. This is confusing...

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Talk:Primitive Irish
Jumat, 2024-10-04 20:48:09

mean they weren't pronounced. Angr (talk) 19:13, 17 June 2013 (UTC) Also, lenition as such is a common phenomenon, typologically, only its grammaticalisation...

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Talk:Fortition
Kamis, 2024-03-07 15:11:17

Consonant mutation, Consonant gradation, Spirantization, Lenition, Fortition and Fortis and lenis all seem to be about the same kind of phenomenon. Perhaps...

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Talk:Consonant mutation/Archive 1
Senin, 2020-08-03 00:16:23

Jwst a note, I'm fairly certian Scottish Gaelic has no eclipses, only lenition. If you're sure, add it. I don't know enough about the goidelic languages...

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Talk:History of Portuguese
Kamis, 2024-02-08 06:18:34

a bit odd to have degemination listed as Lenition, but voicing not. Voicing is the classic oft-cited lenition of Western Romance (and it should be clearer...

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Talk:Facundo Bagnis
Senin, 2024-12-23 12:49:39

[faˈkundo | ˈbaɡnis], with a pause before the surname (which blocks the lenition of /b/) and the stop allophone of /ɡ/. I've added the normal Spanish pronunciation...

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Talk:Conmaicne
Selasa, 2026-04-28 09:56:52

anglicisation. I’d say no lenition per C. Mara, C. Cúile, etc. Seems like there is no standard for lenition with a lack of lenition being more common at least...

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Talk:Federico Delbonis
Sabtu, 2025-10-11 09:50:51

[feðeˈɾiko | delˈβonis], with a pause before the surname, which blocks the lenition of /d/. The normal pronunciation is [feðeˈɾiko ðelˈβonis]. Mr KEBAB (talk)...

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Talk:Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire
Kamis, 2025-12-18 06:13:39

Maoil Chonaire for the family. In older forms of personal names with Mael, lenition was not usual (Maél Ciaráin for example), but in surnames it is now - or...

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Talk:Phonological history of French
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 13:14:18

--Florian Blaschke (talk) 23:54, 29 August 2014 (UTC) Second lenition: Same changes as in first lenition, applied again And yet a couple of lines later we have...

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Talk:Scottish Gaelic grammar
Minggu, 2026-06-07 22:23:05

completely incorrect statements about lenition: (a)that lenition affects only initial consonants; (b) that lenition is always indicated in orthography by...

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Talk:Scottish Gaelic phonology/Archive 1
Minggu, 2010-05-09 01:45:35

importan as it is a feature lost in lenition and also is a main factor in various phonotactic rules such as blocked lenition. n l r sounds are not that easily...

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Talk:Bennett (name)
Minggu, 2024-01-28 10:55:42

disappeared. The 12th century language near English in England, where lenition is total is Anglo-Norman. So is Bennet obviously Anglo-Norman.Nortmannus...

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Talk:Welsh syntax/Archive 1
Jumat, 2020-08-07 06:55:39

"y lywodraeth" of lenition of a feminine noun after the article is wrong. The consonants "ll" and "rh" do not take part in lenition when this is concerned...

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Talk:Fortis and lenis
Jumat, 2026-01-16 01:11:54

perhaps fortition might be merged into lenition. Fortis and lenis is very different from fortition and lenition because the former describes different...

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Talk:Klingenheben's law/GA1
Jumat, 2025-08-01 06:21:38

(UTC) For clarity, it is possible to provide a parenthetical gloss of "lenition" on its first appearance? Would "(softening)" be accurate...? ~ L 🌸 (talk)...

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Talk:Bühnendeutsch
Senin, 2024-08-19 17:17:07

pronunciation of Standard German. There are a few exceptions, e.g. the lenition of /ɡ/ is restricted to the ending -ig.” Other exceptions include the adoption...

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Talk:Occitano-Romance languages
Rabu, 2024-08-21 09:17:08

exhibits the second lenition followed by the apocope, while in Occitano-Romance, the apocope is present without the second lenition ever having happened...

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Talk:Klingenheben's law
Jumat, 2025-08-01 06:21:39

(UTC) For clarity, it is possible to provide a parenthetical gloss of "lenition" on its first appearance? Would "(softening)" be accurate...? ~ L 🌸 (talk)...

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Talk:Uí Ceinnselaig
Sabtu, 2024-02-10 21:21:26

"Uí Che[i]nnselaig". Angus McLellan (Talk) 23:59, 29 November 2009 (UTC) Lenition after plural "Uí" is a common error (understandable as it's an easy one...

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Talk:Old Irish
Kamis, 2026-02-19 14:31:05

and Brythonic. More likely, the lenition of /b d ɡ m/ probably happened in Proto-Insular Celtic, while the lenition of /p t k/ didn't happen until Goidelic...

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Talk:River Nore
Jumat, 2024-04-12 05:47:34

article An in front of it. (An is the singular “the.”) I am not sure if lenition was relevant in Old Irish.] “Feora, -rann, d. -ainn, pl. -anna, f., the...

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Talk:Irish exonyms
Jumat, 2024-04-05 06:46:09

(and one more likely in my opinion) Doo and Glass (genitive: glish, with lenition rendering it as lish - the placename would probably have originally been...

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Talk:Voiced bilabial fricative
Rabu, 2025-05-28 16:42:07

Northern rural perhaps?). I've heard certain speakers in Brazil that use lenition in singing, so from Barbosa's comment I would say /b, d, ɡ/-spirantisation...

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Talk:Andalusi Romance
Kamis, 2024-02-08 10:57:31

varieties south/east of it do not undergo lenition, degemination, and vice versa for north of it)? Nowhere is there lenition in Italy as far south as say, Lazio...

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Talk:Alexia Putellas
Rabu, 2026-06-03 21:25:52

stress markers Removed |pron Changed g to ɣ (based on syllable position and lenition after schwa) I haven't added the s in the first surname, in the full name...

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Talk:Ormuri
Rabu, 2024-12-11 02:52:01

isoglosses that distinguish the Eastern from the Western Iranian languages. Lenition of voiced stops word-initially, and fronting of /t͡ʃ/ to /ts/. Neither...

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Talk:Brittonic languages
Minggu, 2026-02-22 14:07:23

23:02, 2 May 2021 (UTC) [t] to [θ] still is lenition but .... so what was the environment for that? Lenition doesn't HAVE to be between vowels. Akerbeltz...

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Talk:Palatalization (sound change)
Rabu, 2024-01-24 06:34:24

"de-vocalization"), but also [u̯] to [uː] is lenition in the same sense (better "vocalization"), so there is no "net" fortition or lenition taking place. I have seen changes...

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Talk:Syncope (phonology)
Sabtu, 2024-02-10 05:15:49

for a general readership, and may lead to such readers conflating the lenition of /f/ > /v/ > /zero/ with syncope. (Australian > Strine is also vastly...

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Talk:Clan Robertson/Archive 1
Selasa, 2023-07-25 08:16:10

anglicised surname MacConnochie" Surely this is a phonetic spelling? (Lenition of "d") It is no more or less "Anglicised" than other spelling conventions...

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Talk:Inchicore
Minggu, 2024-02-04 04:27:12

be "Island of a berry", but this seems fanciful. One way or another, no lenition in both cases). 37.47.225.102 (talk) 13:05, 18 July 2021 (UTC) Hi. I have...

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Talk:Metathesis (linguistics)
Rabu, 2025-07-09 01:07:25

(or non-syllabic r to r-coloring) an example of lenition? Such a sound change isn't listed in the Lenition article. The metathesis explanation is supported...

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Talk:V
Kamis, 2026-02-19 05:03:32

transliteration of the Scotish Gaelic name, which doesn't even have a lenition at that position. Anyway, the criterion is "in English", which this isn't...

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Talk:Transphonologization
Kamis, 2024-03-07 15:11:32

Wikipedia, see in the Sound Changes box that "Cheshirization" (along with lenition, elision, assimilation, sandhi, etc.) is one of the six or seven basic...

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Talk:Phonological history of English t
Minggu, 2017-09-24 16:41:30

total assimilation. I think it's preferable to treat flapping as a kind of lenition in a weak metrical position. --Angr 19:58, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC) Hmm. That's...

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Talk:2013 protests in Brazil
Minggu, 2026-01-25 04:10:44

Victão Lopes I hear you... 02:43, 19 June 2013 (UTC) @Lukenji We don't have lenition after the 'rr' sound, and in stressed positions, aside of the phonotactic...

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Talk:Voiced labiodental fricative
Kamis, 2025-11-13 03:06:58

are realised as approximants [ʋ ʋʲ], particularly in spontaneous speech. Lenition is indeed the weakening of a consonant, so it is fair to call ⟨v̞⟩ lenited...

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Talk:Birlinn
Jumat, 2026-02-13 15:51:12

"lámhfhada". There the first element in the adjective ("lámh-") causes lenition in the second element and the result is a new verbal entity. "Long-fhada"...

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Talk:Muskeg
Sabtu, 2024-08-24 09:10:55

spelling of Moses in the 15th century was "von Mose" the loss of the "e" (lenition) was quite common at the time. Combined with the "Koek or Kooge" (Dutch/Frisian)...

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Talk:Comanche language
Kamis, 2025-09-25 06:49:40

indicates that the Nʉmʉ has been reanalyzed as a possessive, which would block lenition on a following /p/ or /t/. --Taivo (talk) 17:21, 20 July 2015 (UTC) Hello...

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Talk:Sandhi
Senin, 2025-06-09 01:17:14

needn't be assimilation, either; it can be dissimilation, metathesis, lenition, fortition, etc. as well. —Angr 10:38, 26 November 2006 (UTC) Absolutely...

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Talk:Assibilation
Jumat, 2024-06-07 00:35:22

nasalization of the o. The facts that the affricate /t͡s/ get reduced to /s/ by lenition and that then /sj/ palatalizes in english to /ʃ/ is correct and so ok but...

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Talk:Paulo Dybala
Rabu, 2025-06-11 21:21:55

consciously use one or the other in disagreement with the rules of Spanish lenition (which vary somewhat from dialect to dialect), unless we count slips of...

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Talk:Comparison of Irish, Manx, and Scottish Gaelic
Selasa, 2024-02-13 09:12:17

in a phonetic nasal. They may be few in number, but so is the variant lenition trigger (the feminine article) that changes s->t instead of s->h. A limited...

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Talk:Tolkien fandom/Archive 1
Senin, 2009-07-06 09:26:31

Salo cannot produce even ONE other example showing lenition after _bo_. Salo simply wants lenition to be completely regular and phonologically predictable...

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Talk:Naʼvi language/Archive 1
Selasa, 2022-03-01 12:38:39

Lenition and an infix might account for tspivang. WmAnnis (talk) 03:04, 13 December 2009 (UTC) More evidence for -iv- infix (an not internal lenition)...

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Talk:Consonant gradation
Selasa, 2025-05-20 11:53:36

May 2006 (UTC) Consonant mutation, Consonant gradation, Spirantization, Lenition, Fortition and Fortis and lenis all seem to be about the same kind of phenomenon...

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Talk:A Elbereth Gilthoniel/Archive 1
Selasa, 2025-08-05 18:59:58

"Fanuilos" should also not occur here since in this mode it appears to denote lenition (as on M in "mhellon" in a Moria gate draft) rather than the sound S. The...

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Talk:Terence MacSwiney
Minggu, 2025-10-26 07:01:48

signed his name in Irish. It looks like Toirdhealbhach but using séimhiú / lenition. Snappy (talk) 21:52, 9 June 2010 (UTC) I worked on MacSwiney's papers...

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Talk:Brigid of Kildare/Archive 1
Rabu, 2026-05-27 21:28:48

later have become written as -d. Later spelling would also have marked lenition of the -g-, becoming Brighid. Later still, reformed modern Irish spelling...

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Talk:Ket language
Sabtu, 2025-05-31 21:23:37

gives table spots to most of the outcomes of voice assimilation and stop lenition ([p g ɢ, β ɾ ɣ ʁ] etc.), and I don't remember Vajda mentioning [r] being...

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Talk:Scottish Gaelic phonology and orthography
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 23:46:51

(talk) Sorry but you're not making sense. At all. There is no 'blocked lenition' in an taigh, it's not a leniting environment, taigh being masculine. Secondly...

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Talk:Rendaku/Archive 1
Senin, 2025-07-14 13:12:28

the language's) process is better than calling it sandhi. Not sure about lenition, which is a slightly more specific term than sandhi, and also a bit more...

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Talk:Loanwords in Sri Lankan Tamil
Selasa, 2024-12-31 14:07:31

i.e "vangi vaikkum iddam" Looks actually more Dutch to me. "bank" with lenition of the b --> vank with paragogic vowel insertion --> vanki. If the source...

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Talk:Tadhg
Minggu, 2024-03-24 17:21:51

Putting the g before the h doesn't make any sense in Irish. The H is a lenition, it is there to chabeg the sound of the D. Spelling Tadhg as "Tadgh" is...

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Talk:History of the Spanish language
Selasa, 2025-03-18 02:54:19

article correctly points out. F > h thanks to Basque? "No hard evidence." Lenition thanks to Celtic? The article cites problems with the proposal. Germanic...

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Talk:Old Spanish
Jumat, 2025-02-14 07:40:22

of theoretical interest is José Ignacio Hualde 2013:251, "Intervocalic lenition and word-boundary effects: Evidence from Judeo-Spanish'" (Diachronica 30...

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Talk:Order of Culture
Rabu, 2025-10-29 02:27:22

</ref> Samuel Martin, 1994.<:ref>Martin, Samuel Elmo. ( 1996). Consonant Lenition in Korean and the Macro-Altaic Question, back cover.</ref> Paik Nam-june...

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Talk:Rhoticity in English
Kamis, 2026-04-30 09:12:30

of semivowel? I gather it means lenition, but that's not particularly helpful, because there are many kinds of lenition. — Eru·tuon 18:50, 28 June 2017...

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Talk:Syntactic gemination
Minggu, 2026-04-12 22:25:09

2007 (UTC) Try this: using Roman phonology of a register that allows "lenition" (la cagna will sound almost like la gagna, Caracalla will sound more like...

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Talk:Irish name
Selasa, 2025-09-30 10:35:23

triggers lenition in the same way as Nic (thus Mhic Mhuireadhaigh but Mhic Cárthaigh), but what are the plurals of Ní and Nic, and do they trigger lenition in...

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Talk:Eastern Bengali dialects
Senin, 2026-05-04 04:56:07

consonants section could probably be made a lot more concise if the different lenitions were grouped together, but this would result in some pretty major restructuring...

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Talk:Rapa language
Sabtu, 2024-02-24 17:39:40

should be headers for that table. Possibly include a link for the pages of lenition and TAM. Clmn3 (talk) 15:34, 15 February 2017 (UTC) Thank you for the feedback...

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Talk:Romance plurals
Rabu, 2026-02-25 23:52:46

the case for a process that happened 2000 years ago. Perhaps a link to lenition might be appropriate, but info about something happening in S America today...

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Talk:Tuatha Dé Danann/Archive 1
Rabu, 2025-09-24 12:38:20

palatal consonants, so I've followed that practice for OI. As far as the lenition goes, I don't pretend to have any detailed knowledge of OI, I'm just following...

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Talk:Greenlandic Norse
Senin, 2024-07-22 00:36:30

Norway), while the apparent preservation in Danish is a result of secondary lenition. Note that in Faroese, Old Norse /ð/ is lost after /r/, although it is...

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Talk:Nuada Airgetlám
Jumat, 2024-12-13 13:49:34

"Nuadu" is a genuine Old Irish spelling, but the -u ending became -a before lenition of consonants was marked. There are really only three authentic forms,...

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Talk:Theophoric name
Minggu, 2026-02-22 08:27:03

transliteration a bit nonstandard? Length marks are missing, for one thing, and lenition is inconsistent. —Tamfang (talk) 06:14, 3 January 2011 (UTC) No comment...

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Talk:Sergei Witte
Minggu, 2025-01-26 17:11:52

(UTC) Pretty sure it should be [ ˈvʲitːɛ] — the usual unstressed vowel lenition rules won’t operate on a German name. And the t won’t be palatalized. --...

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Talk:Celtiberian language
Rabu, 2026-04-01 18:52:32

been developed independently (VSO word order, conjugated prepositions, lenition of [m] to a nasalized [v], etc.). —The preceding signed comment was added...

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Talk:Aber and Inver (placename elements)
Kamis, 2025-05-29 00:01:44

25 May 2025 (UTC) Pronounced Abar Dè-a'in when contracted without the lenition! As a footnote here i'll just say that i strongly recommend you read Robertson...

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Talk:Vowel reduction in Russian
Senin, 2025-12-22 23:13:28

that is found in multiple languages, similar to metathesis, epenthesis, lenition, and so on (which are also found in Slavic languages). None of these pages...

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Talk:Clannad
Sabtu, 2025-09-20 16:32:07

from "B" to "Vr". DeCausa (talk) 17:36, 26 March 2013 (UTC) It's called Lenition. See this. DeCausa (talk) 17:41, 26 March 2013 (UTC) This article says...

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Talk:Sardinian language
Sabtu, 2024-07-20 16:39:44

broad transcription for /b d g/-lenition in Sardinian... Is there really a difference between Sardinian and Iberian lenitions? Jɑυмe (xarrades) 00:13, 21...

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Talk:International Phonetic Alphabet/Archive 14
Selasa, 2026-03-10 19:10:55

expressing basically the same distinction: “stricture”, “degree of contact”, “lenition” and “fortition”. ◅ Sebastian 15:33, 22 November 2021 (UTC) 'Raise' and...

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Talk:Caffar O'Donnell
Senin, 2026-04-06 01:33:38

version is Caffar, shouldn't the Irish version be Cathbharr, with two lenitions? ~2025-38967-52 (talk) 20:43, 6 December 2025 (UTC) I have changed the...

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Talk:Spanish phonology/Archive 2
Minggu, 2024-12-08 11:15:26

source to back that up? Peter238 (talk) 22:18, 21 October 2015 (UTC) Hola. Lenition is not uniform, it varies according to speaker/dialect. For example, many...

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Talk:Bataireacht
Selasa, 2024-12-24 05:44:48

on Éist Arís, which may be the reason for your confusion. The séimhiú/lenition i.e. 'h' when succeeding an initial consonant has only a grammatical, not...

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Talk:Catalan phonology
Selasa, 2026-03-03 19:21:08

will move lenition of coda plosives to phonotactics, since this is irrelevant to both Standard Catalan and Valencian. Reasons: Such lenition shouldn't...

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Talk:Relative clause/Archive 2
Minggu, 2025-01-12 21:26:04

18:54, 10 December 2008 (UTC) Synchronically, the direct "a" triggers lenition of a following consonant, while indirect "a" triggers eclipsis of a following...

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Talk:Scottish Gaelic/Archive 4
Minggu, 2023-01-29 17:54:54

-- the lenition in the Scottish Gaelic was introduced by a process of assimilation and naturalisation (in the older Celtic tongues, lenition was a simple...

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Talk:History of Latin
Kamis, 2024-02-15 10:27:27

have retroflex consonants; Spanish and the Celtic languages both have lenition. The sharing of vowel reduction between Latin and Etruscan looks like the...

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Talk:Bretwalda
Senin, 2025-03-10 03:11:08

second is derived from 'gwladwr', ie 'ruler', which would be subject to lenition following an adjective or a noun that is used as an adjective, giving 'wladwr'...

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Talk:High German languages
Senin, 2024-10-28 03:37:52

would follow the linguistic rule of thumb of sound tending to undergo lenition rather than fortition. This would mean that High German [x] is a later...

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Talk:Voiced velar nasal
Minggu, 2026-01-11 06:47:34

only before a schwa... It's not so weird after all, it's just a kind of lenition (nasal stop -> nasal approximant). --Helloworlditsme (talk) 05:51, 22 November...

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Talk:Yeísmo
Kamis, 2026-06-04 02:47:36

elsewhere (pronounced with a lax voiced sound featuring varying degrees of lenition from fricative to approximant, to near or total loss when syllable- and...

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Talk:High German consonant shift
Senin, 2025-11-17 04:27:48

dialects it is phonogically the opposite of the sound shift, since it is a lenition it does not form part of a series with the other voiceless fricatives,...

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Talk:Lombardy
Senin, 2026-01-12 09:52:53

is based on linguistic evidences (vocalic phonology, syncope of vowels, lenition of consonants, lexicon, etc), but these are linked to a cultural continuity...

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Talk:Sgian dubh
Rabu, 2026-06-03 07:51:47

references. Yes, I could spend the afternoon getting references for blocked lenition and the semantics of dubh but I don't have an afternoon to spare, especially...

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Talk:Japonic languages
Kamis, 2026-02-12 20:47:32

still friendly toward Whitman's *r-loss hypothesis. He also favors the lenition hypothesis (since this was back when he was still pro-Altaic), which is...

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Talk:The Tale of Igor's Campaign/Archive 1
Minggu, 2022-05-15 23:00:20

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

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Talk:Glottalic theory
Sabtu, 2025-07-12 22:07:57

common for aspirates to become tenuis and then voiced, as pʰ → p → b (lenition), the reverse is rare. Okay, what? From what little I've redd, changes...

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Talk:Quenya/Archive 1
Selasa, 2024-08-06 02:15:04

[hl] (lenition: debuccalization of /s/) [hl̥] (assimilation: devoicing of /l/ after voiceless consonant) /l̥/ (lenition: elision of /h/) /l/ (lenition: voicing...

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Talk:Ablaut
Selasa, 2025-03-11 04:46:40

articulation, approximant/frictionless continuant, voiceless/surd, weakening/lenition, variety/lect, control structure/equi-NP deletion, matrix-coding construction/raising...

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Talk:Shilha language
Rabu, 2026-05-13 18:41:29

ILCAA Robert Martin Kirchner, 2001, An Effort Based Approach to Consonant Lenition, Psychology Press Joseph H. Greenberg, Charles Albert Ferguson, & Edith...

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Talk:Korean language/Archive 2
Minggu, 2023-03-12 10:52:10

isolate or a Japanese with no known relatives. Gurevich, Naomi (2004) "Lenition and contrast: the functional consequences of certain phonetically conditioned...

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Talk:Portuguese phonology/Archive 1
Selasa, 2009-06-16 06:00:17

Several sources state that a recent sound change in European Portuguese as lenition for b, d, and g similar to what occurs in Spanish. Yet, there is no mention...

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Talk:Iona
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 00:36:12

each other as Goidelic often re-interprets initial fricatives by assuming lenition and reversing it or by dropping the offending fricative. So if H+Vowel...

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Talk:Cape Verde/Archive 2
Jumat, 2025-12-05 13:40:53

mistake is showing it with a regional European Portuguese pronunciation. The lenition of the intervocalic voiced plosives is by no means standard in European...

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Talk:Serbo-Croatian phonology
Senin, 2026-01-19 05:43:00

interesting since they mostly only show elision, fortition to [k], or lenition to [j]. I am a little skeptical about the Kadić source being a reliable...

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Talk:Irish language/Archive 2
Rabu, 2023-02-01 17:03:12

Irish and is only used when words beginning with the letter f undergo lenition. V is used only in foreign words in Irish (and in the surname Ó Cuív),...

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Talk:Pronunciation of English ⟨th⟩
Senin, 2025-11-17 04:23:29

perspective as not being the only system. A proper explanation of Gaelic lenition is not attempted in this three-line section, however, as that belongs elsewhere...

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Talk:Isle of Skye/Archive 1
Minggu, 2025-04-27 01:30:33

[çirˠʃd̪̊ə] or [hirˠʃd̪̊ə] to *Kirta when quizzed on the place name (backforming lenition is very common in Gaelic, cf hogshead > tocasaid, hallur > talla, vervain...

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Talk:Philippine Spanish/GA1
Rabu, 2024-11-27 06:52:51

in the best interest of careful readers use either debuccalization or lenition so as not to confuse linguistic terminology. Anyone interested in linguistics...

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Talk:Romance languages
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 01:13:33

10 1,196 Apocope 7,111 7,111 372 372 Palatalization 1,499 1,499 56 56 Lenition 8,113 8,113 601 601 Vowel prosthesis 2,339 2,339 157 157 Stressed vowels...

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Talk:Japanese phonology/Archive 2
Sabtu, 2025-11-15 21:49:51

results thus show that Japanese voiced alveolar /d/ is also subject to lenition (contra to previous descriptive phonetic accounts: Vance 1987, Okada 1999)...

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Talk:Philippine Spanish
Jumat, 2026-03-20 02:08:41

in the best interest of careful readers use either debuccalization or lenition so as not to confuse linguistic terminology. Anyone interested in linguistics...

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Talk:Flapping
Selasa, 2026-06-02 03:05:33

total assimilation. I think it's preferable to treat flapping as a kind of lenition in a weak metrical position. --Angr 19:58, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC) Hmm. That's...

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Talk:Falkland Islands/Archive 20
Rabu, 2023-01-18 19:52:55

thoroughly confused with Spanish (and it reminds one of it in the aspect of lenition of voiced stops b, d, g - that people say to not exist in Brazil, what...

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Talk:Phrygian language
Senin, 2025-03-03 03:45:17

shares phonological innovations such as the following with Greek: ... lenition of prevocalic *s, word-initially (NPhr. εγεδου, Gr. ἐχέσθω < *seǵh-) and...

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Talk:Proto-Romance language/Archive 1
Senin, 2026-04-06 04:08:05

/ɡ/, in intervocalic position as well. The possibility of sandhi /-b-/ lenition may be worth noting, now that you mention it. I'll have to add another...

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Talk:Latin phonology and orthography/Archive 2
Senin, 2020-04-20 07:42:26

kind of puts the opposite idea across, i.e. that it wasn't that prone to lenition/assimilation. LjL (talk) 20:58, 27 June 2009 (UTC) If we avoid /j/, how...

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Talk:Agglutinative language
Rabu, 2025-09-17 17:46:11

vowels (gel-i-r). It's clearly an irregularity. Also some verbs go through lenition of the last consonant, but most don't (bit-ecek, but gid-ecek, not *git-ecek)...

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Talk:Voiced uvular trill
Sabtu, 2026-02-21 18:17:17

approximant ar to mid vowels to alveolo-palatal sibilants to voiced stop lenition. Of course a person whose native language is not English, that entered...

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Talk:Voiced velar fricative
Sabtu, 2025-11-01 06:12:48

sourced; if you disagree with it, find a source which states that there's no lenition in Austrian German. — Peter238 (v̥ɪˑzɪʔ mɑˑɪ̯ tˢʰoˑk̚ pʰɛˑɪ̯d̥ʒ̊) 14:13...

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Talk:Faroese language
Senin, 2024-02-12 23:01:34

unaspirated rather than voiced and unvoiced. A source for this is e.g. Lenition and Contrast by Naomi Gurevich, p.97, ISBN 0415970997, citing personal...

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Talk:Manx language/Archive 3
Senin, 2026-06-08 04:11:55

enough to most learners, i.e. the majority of users, with its mutation/lenition system, or however they refer to it these days). A lot of my edits are...

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Talk:Grace O'Malley/Archive 1
Rabu, 2023-02-01 08:48:33

man, or the family in general. The prefix "Ní" ("daughter of") causes lenition (the "h" following the initial consonant) of the name following it. —Preceding...

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Talk:Spanish phonology/Archive 1
Senin, 2026-04-20 02:08:01

assimilation, because the place of [h] is glottal, not dental. It's simply a lenition, very common in many Spanish dialects and already mentioned in the previous...

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Talk:Paladin
Sabtu, 2025-12-06 02:14:27

distinction, not even today, so it's all about t-d, and you know about lenition, i suppose.--FlammingoHey 16:46, 13 November 2008 (UTC) I fail to see how...

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Talk:Laryngeal theory
Senin, 2025-10-13 08:38:42

counterparts appear does not reflect PIE's. It corresponds to Eichner's lenition/voicing laws, which are: A voiceless obstruent is lenited/voiced if it's...

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Talk:Russian phonology/Archive 4
Minggu, 2026-02-01 21:45:12

diminutive suffixes «-ьо́к-» and «-ьо́нок-», that cause palatalization and lenition of root's last |k| morphoneme to /t͡ɕ/: бачо́к [bɐˈt͡ɕɵk]. Would you believe...

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Talk:Hebrew language/Archive 4
Rabu, 2023-02-01 11:18:13

no article exists. Is this an established term, or could something like Lenition be redirected to? I'm not familiar with Hebrew, so forgive my stab in the...

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Talk:Canadian raising
Jumat, 2025-01-17 23:38:46

second reason: the flap and the glottal stop are just products of further lenition of /t/. But this is complicated by the fact that in southern England you...

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Talk:Scottish Gaelic/Archive 5
Jumat, 2026-02-06 04:51:53

Anglo-Saxon in origin are essentially all the result of backformation (i.e. de-lenition of f > p i.e. by speakers re-analyzing a place name like /fɑːl/ and assuming...

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Talk:Brittonicisms in English
Minggu, 2025-07-27 06:47:27

Proto-Celtic */w/ was lost in that position in Irish and was renewed only in lenition contexts ...” (Richard Coates, Reviewed Works -- English and Celtic in...

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Talk:Scottish Gaelic/Archive 3
Rabu, 2012-05-30 07:25:29

favours the plain headword as it would appear in a dictionary. The "A'" and lenition are grammatical features and not part of the word per se. Prof Wrong (talk)...

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Talk:Ukrainian language/Archive 3
Selasa, 2024-11-05 00:11:21

suggested by its mutation into ж when palatalized (нога — ножка), its lenition when it is devoiced (снег, когти), and its traditional fricative pronunciation...

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Talk:Ban (title)
Sabtu, 2024-02-10 13:07:03

and is the origin of šahrbān. The b is the result of the Middle Persian lenition after vowels: xšaθrapāvanam > Late Old Persian xšaθrapān- > xšaθr(a)βān-...

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Talk:Kamarupi Prakrit/Archive 2
Rabu, 2022-06-08 07:24:05

fricative is not an issue in this article. It is accepted that it arose as a lenition of the sibilants in Assamese. The argument Neog and Sarma have put forward...

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Talk:International Phonetic Alphabet/Archive 2
Selasa, 2023-08-01 14:14:06

the bottom.) There are four benefits to laying the chart out this way: Lenition processes (plosive → fricative → approximant) are now easy to follow by...

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Talk:Canadian Gaelic
Minggu, 2026-05-31 18:38:46

syllable that gets simplified but /lʲə/ look decidedly odd and the lack of lenition and the vowels in /kanatanax/ look fishy too and I'm tempted to redo them...

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Talk:Finnish language/Archive 1
Sabtu, 2023-02-18 23:16:44

--Hkroger (talk) 23:11, 12 December 2007 (UTC) Consonant gradation is a lenition process ... However, it is very common since it is found in the partitive...

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Talk:Greek language/Archive 2
Rabu, 2023-02-01 09:15:12

is plural = (godly) leaders; 'a' is an article = the. Greek with K > G lenition is Krik meaning cirkle. The symbol of God in Sumerian was the cirkle; this...

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Talk:Phonological history of English consonant clusters/Archive 1
Jumat, 2016-07-22 01:16:28

or [h] is more phonologically intelligible, an example of two kinds of lenition and dissimilation; and the reduction of /eo̯/ to /iu̯/ to /juː/ to /uː/...

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Talk:Voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative
Jumat, 2025-04-18 03:26:59

21:50, 14 September 2017 (UTC) Another source mentioning the assimilation-lenition process [sti ~ ʃti] > [stʃi ~ ʃti] > [ʃtʃi] > [ʃ.ʃi] > [ʃi] http://www...

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Talk:Dublin/Archive 1
Selasa, 2023-01-31 23:08:51

written down in script. 3) Even when Old Irish did come to be written down, lenition of "b" was, in any case, not marked by a dot: it was not marked at all...

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Talk:Russian phonology/Archive 2
Selasa, 2017-07-11 07:56:57

mean 'g' was fricative in Northern dialects. Russians have sporadical lenition in many other words, say, [b] in что-нибудь becomes sporadically a bilabial...

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Talk:Nara (city)/Archive 1
Kamis, 2022-10-27 23:42:28

Chinese phonological processes, this coda consonant may have been subject to lenition, but not fortition and devoicing. In addition, Old Chinese is widely regarded...

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Talk:Celts/Archive 5
Jumat, 2025-07-25 22:49:45

possibility.Gabhala (talk) 18:54, 23 January 2008 (UTC) I'm aware of non-marked lenition in Old Irish, but I still don't believe v or w can be etymologically linked...

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Talk:Dené–Caucasian languages
Selasa, 2024-02-27 00:47:53

other changes (to [t], [l], [ʃ] etc.) are a matter of usual processes like lenition, fortition, etc. and are paralleled by similar shifts within Caucasian...

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Talk:Scouse
Jumat, 2024-03-22 23:14:01

trying to intimate. Koncorde (talk) 22:02, 27 February 2014 (UTC) This is lenition of /k/ into /x/ which tends to happen at the end of the word or between...

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Talk:Māori language/Archive 1
Kamis, 2023-12-14 07:32:24

the extra vowel schwa - which isn't an instance of apocope, by the way. Lenition probably more like it. How do we distinguish this from the wholesale substitution...

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Talk:Spanish language/Archive 6
Jumat, 2023-02-03 16:26:56

labialization while [ɰ] and [g] differ in degree of closure), or the extreme lenition of final -d (which can lead to its total loss, or to a bounceback fortition...

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Talk:Sindarin/Archive 1
Senin, 2024-07-01 00:50:36

three main different types of mutations in "early conceptual Noldorin": (a) soft mutation (or lenition), (b) hard mutation, and (c) nasal mutation. ”...

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Talk:Grimm's law
Senin, 2025-11-17 03:19:21

fortition; southwestern German wouldn't show traces either way due to various lenition phenomena across the board, except maybe in Walser dialects that are beyond...

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Talk:Uto-Aztecan languages
Senin, 2025-11-17 05:08:00

phonological reconstructions. Open or closed syllables, Final features, Lenition/consonant gradation, status of l, n, ŋ. Describe basic morphological characteristics:...

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Talk:Afroasiatic languages/Archive 2
Minggu, 2023-07-02 07:23:32

the top if my head are the begedpeket lenition changes; contrast the endless stream of palatalizations, lenitions, nasalizations, etc. in the Indo-European...

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Talk:Hokkaidō Ainu/Archive 1
Minggu, 2025-10-12 19:26:55

the explanation. Is this a dialect phenomenon, or is the syllable-final lenition pretty consistent among Ainu speakers? And do you have any idea how recent...

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Talk:Wales/Archive 2
Senin, 2025-09-01 13:20:26

the term 'soft mutation' and more generally in linguistics in the terms lenition and fortition. garik 22:07, 14 August 2006 (UTC) There is a distinct division...

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Talk:Dublin/Archive 2
Senin, 2025-09-01 12:58:55

considered broad, for example. Dublin could not be from Hiberno-English as the lenition of b to bh had occured long before English had come to be spoken in Ireland...

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Talk:Scottish Gaelic/Archive 2
Jumat, 2023-02-03 13:02:54

the term "initial consonant mutation"? Maybe because Sc. Gaelic only has lenition, so we don't need a more general term? I think that the reference to initial...

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Talk:Calgary/Archive 3
Senin, 2023-01-30 04:08:59

dyke). The minor spelling variations are due to Gaelic case endings and lenition and don't actually have any bearing on the identity of the underlying words...

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Talk:Celts/Archive 7
Rabu, 2011-10-26 14:13:46

root=leiden). Note that the evolution of Galician is marked by a general lenition of the occlusive consonant system, so [kk] > [k], [k] > [γ], [g] > [ø]...

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Talk:Tamil language/Archive 7
Jumat, 2023-02-03 19:50:03

as some sort of allophone (despite extensive discussion of voicing and lenition allophony processes with regards to the plosives). This needs to be cleared...

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Talk:English orthography/Archive 1
Selasa, 2025-12-23 02:01:06

Welsh or Scottish Gaelic, for example, the rules and sound changes and lenitions, while somewhat consistent (or, more precisely, predictable), seem very...

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Talk:False cognate/Archive 1
Kamis, 2025-05-01 22:09:42

shift from /g/ to /h/ is a very common change, and be a typical example of lenition (a very similar change occurred in the development of Spanish, for example)...

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Talk:International Phonetic Alphabet/Archive 3
Minggu, 2021-10-03 12:22:18

the bottom.) There are four benefits to laying the chart out this way: Lenition processes (plosive → fricative → approximant) are now easy to follow by...

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Talk:Attacotti/Archive 1
Selasa, 2026-02-24 14:36:39

Primitive Irish from Old Irish there are certain guiding principles (e.g. lenition, syncope etc) but *Ateûiācotōtās remains a hypothetical (and slightly imaginative)...

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Talk:Irish name/Archive 1
Selasa, 2012-02-07 19:46:17

I've added info about Gaeltacht usage. I don't unfortunately know the origins of this or how long it's been around for. I also changed the first line because...

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Talk:Northern Ireland/Archive 12
Minggu, 2026-02-22 12:51:03

[Your helpful link explained that the additional aitch is there because of lenition - "a fancy way of talking about aspiration of consonants. The H is used...

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Talk:Cnut/Archive 2
Jumat, 2024-11-01 23:46:33

the Old Norse final /t/ (a stop) into Danish /ð/ (a fricative) is called lenition. It did not take place in Swedish and it had not taken place in Danish...

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Talk:Centum and satem languages/Archive 1
Minggu, 2024-11-17 19:56:44

Earth are all the fricatives coming from? (satem, not ḱatem.) Did this lenition happen in all the satem languages? Is it part of 'satemisation', or does...

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Talk:Biblical Hebrew/Archive 1
Minggu, 2026-01-11 21:34:16

the pharyngeal/uvular merger to before the Aramaic-influenced begedkefet lenition. Mo-Al (talk) 00:12, 29 May 2009 (UTC) In "Phonology" it reads: rēš ר /ɾ/...

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Talk:Vulgar Latin/Archive 1
Jumat, 2025-01-17 00:48:36

eventually fell, giving *ambtare and then andare when the bt nexus underwent lenition. Pan Brerus (talk) 23:08, 25 June 2012 (UTC) You omitted Spanish fui, fuiste...

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Talk:History of Bosnia and Herzegovina/Archive 1
Rabu, 2023-02-01 12:22:48

community" ;) --Vedran 21:52, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC) It's mesTna zajednica after lenition... Nikola 20:50, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC) I wouldn't go so far to say it's just...

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Talk:Brazilian Portuguese/Archive 2
Senin, 2025-10-13 00:59:55

spoken in 19th century Lisbon. We also have tons of vowel reduction, and lenition of voiced consonants. Inb4: rant. I kinda like the alternation of onset...

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Talk:Cumbric/Archive 1
Rabu, 2025-01-08 21:29:36

ditch ; fence, hedge " (early Bret, cloed, clod, cloz, Ir. clad) with lenition after certain preposi- tions, and aeth " furze." Glodd- would exactly correspond...

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Talk:Valencian language/Archive 3
Sabtu, 2025-01-18 19:00:32

Spanish already use a narrow transcription (that's the reason we transcribe lenition and use brackets instead of slashes, although in general transcriptions...

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Talk:Polish phonology/Archive 1
Jumat, 2025-01-17 19:44:12

or different, undergo assimilation in consonantal clusters as well as lenitions as mentioned above in such words as chata and Hanna.--Jeziorko (talk)...

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