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lenite
lenite, v. Phonology. (ˈliːnaɪt) [Back-formation from lenition.] a. trans. To make lenis in articulation. b. intr. (Of consonants), to become lenis. Hence ˈlenitable a.; ˈlenited ppl. a.1912 F. W. O'Connell Gram. Old Irish 5 A true lenited f occurs in Modern Irish and is pronounced h. Ibid. 61 The a...
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Warembori language
The light voiced stops lenite to between vowels within a word. The heavy stops do not lenite.
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lenate
lenate, v. Phonology. (liːˈneɪt) [f. L. lēn(is soft + -ate3.] = lenite v. Hence leˈnated ppl. a. Also leˈnation n. = lenition.1909 J. Strachan Introd. Early Welsh 12 When an adjective in the positive degree precedes, the noun is lenated. Ibid., After proper nouns there is lenation of a following nou...
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Phonology
Consonants
The voiceless stops /t tʲ k/ lenite lenite in prosodically weak positions: /t/ becomes [d] or [ð], /tʲ/ becomes [ɾ], and /k/ becomes
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Gadsup language
The phonology of Akuna Gadsup is similar to Ontena Gadsup, except voiceless plosives don't lenite initially, but they do medially.
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Wogamusin language
Between vowels, and lenite to the fricatives and , respectively. is realized as an affricate, , word-initially. is velar, , after and .
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Floating tone
syllable which precedes it:
oh á-nga he is climbing
óh a-nga he didn't climb
Floating tones derive historically from morphemes which assimilate or lenite
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Bangime language
NC sequences tend to drop the plosive, and often lenite to a nasalized sonorant: [búndà] ~ [búr̃a] ~ [bún] 'finish', [támbà] ~ [táw̃à] ~ [támà] 'chew'.
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Uyghur phonology
Stops and affricates lenite when preceding a dissimilar consonant. goes to , to , to , and to .
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Galician phonology
In some dialects, it lenites to approximant in the same environments where lenite. It may also be realized as where it derives from .
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Suyá language
Vowel epenthesis often causes the underlying coda to lenite.
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Irish declension
In Connacht sa(n) eclipses whereas den and don lenite. Dative (ii) is used outside Ulster with other prepositions. Otherwise, the adjective in the nominative plural does not lenite: "lame tailors".
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Numic languages
In Comanche, nasal-stop clusters have become simple stops, but and from these clusters do not lenite intervocalically.
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Comparison (grammar)
In other tenses, nas is replaced by na bu and as by a bu, both of which lenite the adjective if possible.
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Scottish Gaelic grammar
As indicated in the following table, some possessive determiners lenite the following word.
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