Übersetzung für 'lenition' von Englisch nach Deutsch

lenition

Lenierung {f}ling.

• Debuccalization is usually seen as a subtype of lenition, which is often defined as a sound change involving the weakening of a consonant by progressive shifts in pronunciation.
• Irish, like Manx and colloquial Scottish Gaelic, uses two mutations on consonants: lenition (...) and eclipsis (...) (the alternative names, "aspiration" for lenition and "nasalisation" for eclipsis, are also used, but those terms are misleading).
• Irish also practices lenition after the numerals 2–6 (5 "cheint") and eclipsis after numerals 7–10 (9 "gceint", 8 "n-eoró").
• Irish has two consonant mutations: "lenition" (...) and "eclipsis" (...).
• The lenition tendency of palatalized consonants (by assibilation and deaffrication) is important.

• Stop consonants shifted by lenition in Vulgar Latin in some areas.
• Lenition involves changes in manner of articulation, sometimes accompanied by small changes in place of articulation.
• Both trigger lenition (indicated by the "+" signs rather than the hyphens that usually mark prefix boundaries).
• A gender distinction is made in the third person singular by means of lenition following masculine [...] "his, its" and lack of lenition after feminine [...] "her, its".