Consonant
31consonant with — index pursuant to Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
32consonant shift — n. a sound change or series of connected sound changes in the consonants of a language or family of languages, as a series of changes in the Indo European stops that set Germanic apart from other Indo European languages, or of changes in the… …
33Consonant gradation — Sound change and alternation Metathesis Quantitative metathesis …
34Consonant mutation — Sound change and alternation Metathesis Quantitative metathesis …
35Consonant cluster — In linguistics, a consonant cluster (or consonant blend) is a group of consonants which have no intervening vowel. In English, for example, the groups /spl/ and /ts/ are consonant clusters in the word splits. Some linguists argue that the term… …
36consonant shift — noun 1. : the set of regular changes in consonant articulation which distinguish the Germanic languages from the other Indo European languages and through which Indo European voiceless stops become Germanic voiceless fricatives (as in Greek pyr,… …
37Consonant harmony — Sound change and alternation Metathesis Quantitative metathesis …
38Consonant voicing and devoicing — Sound change and alternation Metathesis Quantitative metathesis …
39consonant shift — Ling. a set of changes that take place in the articulation of one or more consonant phonemes between an earlier and a later stage of a language. Cf. first consonant shift, second consonant shift. [1885 90] * * * …
40CONSONANT, ANTE — adj. T. de Musique Qui donne, qui produit une consonance ou Qui est formé par des consonances. Intervalle consonant. Accord consonant. Mots consonants, Mots qui ont une terminaison de son identique. On dit aussi Terminaisons consonantes …
