On this page you'll find 9 example sentences with Lenition. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Lenition meaning
A weakening of articulation causing a consonant to become lenis (soft).
Using Lenition
- The main meaning on this page is: A weakening of articulation causing a consonant to become lenis (soft).
- In the example corpus, lenition often appears in combinations such as: lenition of, by lenition, lenition in.
Context around Lenition
- Average sentence length in these examples: 18.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 6 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lenition
- In this selection, "lenition" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 18.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, causes, mutation and stop stand out and add context to how "lenition" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include case causes lenition of the and characteristics of lenition and loss. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lenition" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lenition
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Lenition Stop consonants shifted by lenition in Vulgar Latin. (9 words)
The vocative case causes lenition of the initial consonant of nouns. (11 words)
All of these languages do have the "northwest" characteristics of lenition and loss of gemination. (15 words)
Manx has an optional process of lenition of plosives between vowels, whereby voiced plosives and voiceless fricatives become voiced fricatives and voiceless plosives become either voiced plosives or voiced fricatives. (30 words)
Cornish has retained the vocative case, with the particle the same as in Scottish Gaelic and Irish, a, which causes the second state mutation (lenition) in the following word. (29 words)
The primary characteristics dividing the two are: * Lenition of intervocalic stops, which happens to the northwest but not to the southeast. (21 words)
Example sentences (9)
Lenition Stop consonants shifted by lenition in Vulgar Latin.
All of these languages do have the "northwest" characteristics of lenition and loss of gemination.
Brythonic Languages Welsh marks the vocative by lenition of the initial consonant of the word, with no obligatory particle.
Cornish has retained the vocative case, with the particle the same as in Scottish Gaelic and Irish, a, which causes the second state mutation (lenition) in the following word.
Manx has an optional process of lenition of plosives between vowels, whereby voiced plosives and voiceless fricatives become voiced fricatives and voiceless plosives become either voiced plosives or voiced fricatives.
The primary characteristics dividing the two are: * Lenition of intervocalic stops, which happens to the northwest but not to the southeast.
The principal marker is the vocative particle a, which causes lenition of the initial letter.
The vocative case causes lenition of the initial consonant of nouns.
This phenomenon occurs because voiced fricatives have developed from lenition of plosives or fortition of approximants.
Common combinations with lenition
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- lenition of 6×
- by lenition 2×
- lenition in 2×
- of lenition 2×
- causes lenition 2×