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Lenition

In linguistics, lenition is a sound change that alters consonants, making them "weaker" in some way. The word lenition means 'softening' or 'weakening' (from Latin lēnis 'weak'). Lenition can happen both synchronically (within a language at a particular point in time) and diachronically (as a language changes over time). Lenition can involve such changes…

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Fortition

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Lenition

Nodes113
Edges112
Triples104
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.017699
Components1

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Lenition

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related to Diachronic · 18
Lenition → Celtic, Central Southern Irish, Diachronic, For, Indo-European, Irish, It, Italian, Latin, Modern Irish, Modern Scots Gaelic, Old Irish, One, Primitive Irish, Proto-Celtic, Scottish, Spanish, The
related to Orthography · 16
Lenition → An, Breton, Brythonic, Celtic, Gaelic, In, In Irish, In Middle Irish, In Welsh, Irish, Manx, Roman, The Irish, Thus, Voicing, Welsh
related to General references · 14
Lenition → An Introduction, Celtic, Crowley, Gran Canaria, Historical Linguistics, Insular Spanish, ISBN, Magne, Oftedal, Oxford University Press, Stops, Terry, The Secondary Voicing, USA
related to Mixed · 10
Lenition → American English, Canadian, Central, Central Tuscany, For, In Tuscany, Luciano, Sometimes, Southern Italy, The Italian
related to Opening · 10
Lenition → Aromanian, English, French, Gilbertese, Greek, In, Latin, Old French, Opening, Spanish
related to Consonant gradation · 6
Lenition → An, Finnic, Finnish, It, The, Votic
see also · 5
Lenition → Fortis, Italian, Japanese, LawHigh German, Tuscan
related to Fortition · 4
Lenition → Fortition, Italian, Januarius, Lat
related to Sonorization · 4
Lenition → Korean, Sonorizing, Spanish, The
related to Blocked lenition · 3
Lenition → In Scottish Gaelic, Some, This

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example consonant changes languages spanish sound change also word consonants italian latin synchronic diachronic fortition intervocalic voicing stops celtic gaelic

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Lenitionis asound change that alters consonants0.90text
paterinstance ofʰuə/.An example of historical lenition in the Germanic languages is evidenced by Latin-English cognates0.80text
tenuisinstance ofʰuə/.An example of historical lenition in the Germanic languages is evidenced by Latin-English cognates0.80text
cornu vs. fatherinstance ofʰuə/.An example of historical lenition in the Germanic languages is evidenced by Latin-English cognates0.80text
thininstance ofʰuə/.An example of historical lenition in the Germanic languages is evidenced by Latin-English cognates0.80text
horninstance ofʰuə/.An example of historical lenition in the Germanic languages is evidenced by Latin-English cognates0.80text
cuppainstance ofsimplification of geminate consonants as in the passage from Latin to Spanish0.80text
/ninstance ofChanges0.80text
Lenitionrelated to Blocked lenitionSome0.60section
Lenitionrelated to Blocked lenitionThis0.60section
Lenitionrelated to Blocked lenitionIn Scottish Gaelic0.60section
Lenitionrelated to Consonant gradationThe0.60section

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