Lenition (1319 bytes)
1: ...]] that appears in many [[language]]s. The name ''lenition'' appears especially, but not exclusively, in the...
3: Lenition means 'softening' or 'weakening' (from [[Latin]] ...
5: ...article). [[Diachronic_linguistics|Diachronical]] lenition is found, for example, in the change from [[Latin...

Initial consonant mutation (3879 bytes)
7: # [[Lenition]] or softening, in which [[voiceless stop]]s beco...
69: .../b/ through lenition; the second from /m/ through lenition; and the third from /f/ through eclipsis (althoug...

TH (786 bytes)
8: ...[[Celtic language]]s to refer to the product of [[lenition]] of ''t''.

Classical Japanese language (1015 bytes)
1: ...n [[consonant]]s in certain environments; and the lenition of [p] to the bilabial fricative [ɸ].

North Sindarin (2254 bytes)
6: ...t also went through several changes of its own: [[lenition]] occurred far less in this dialect than in the o...

Irish verbs (8260 bytes)
11: ...ption: the preterite impersonal neither undergoes lenition nor receives '''d<nowiki>'</nowiki>'''.)

History of the Spanish language (3783 bytes)
1: ...s of Spanish diachronical [[phonology]] include [[lenition]] (Latin ''vita'', Spanish ''vida''), [[palataliz...

Old King Cole (5068 bytes)
13: ...], and the derivation sequence ''/kamul/'' (+ ''[[lenition]]'') > ''/kawul/'' > ''/kaul/'' > ''/ko:l/'' is n...

Acute accent (8144 bytes)
35: ...h fada'' (pronounced SHEE-na FA-da), is a sign of lenition and denotes a long vowel as opposed to a short on...

Irish nominals (26719 bytes)
27: ... preceded by the particle '''a''', which triggers lenition. (In spoken Irish this particle is often omitted...
488: *The '''nominative plural''' undergoes [[lenition]] only if the noun ends with a ''slender consonan...
557: ...) + predicate. The preterite of the copula causes lenition, while the present tense does not.
566: '''Níb(a)''', which triggers lenition, is used if the sentence is in the past tense. ''...

Beijing dialect (8276 bytes)
19: ..., in fast speech, initial consonants go through [[lenition]] if they are in an [[vocal stress|unstressed]] [...

Catalan phonology and orthography (11672 bytes)
16: *Consonantic lenition, similar to most of western romances:

Spanish phonology (12617 bytes)
41: ...and Madrid this phoneme in final position suffers lenition and devoicing, merging with {{IPA|/&#952;/}}.

Irish language (35474 bytes)
196: * Lenition (in Irish, ''séimhiú'' "softening") describes the...
197: ...'chaith mé'' "I threw" (this is an example of the lenition as a past-tense marker, which is caused by the us...
198: ...rd "Timothy of the market-place" (here we see the lenition marking the genitive case of a masculine noun)
199: ... called the vocative case - in fact, the vocative lenition is triggered by the ''a'' or vocative marker befo...

Scottish Gaelic language (25964 bytes)
69: lenition was instead indicated with a dot over the lenited...
100: ...IPA|/&#660;/}}, or silent; ''ph'' is {{IPA|/f/}}. Lenition of ''l'' ''n'' ''r'' is not shown in writing.

Irish orthography (30497 bytes)
62: <tr><td><b>fh</b> <td>silent (lenition of <b>f-</b>)
125: <tr><td><b>ts</b> <td>[t], [t´] (special lenition of <b>s-</b> after <b>an</b> 'the')

Irish dialects (17869 bytes)
75: In Donegal there is lenition instead of eclipsis of a singular noun after prep...

Occitan language (14660 bytes)
68: * Other lenition and palatalisation phenomena shared with other we...

Spanish language (22704 bytes)
36: ...s of Spanish diachronical [[phonology]] include [[lenition]] (Latin ''vita'', Spanish ''vida''), [[palataliz...

Non-native pronunciations of English (31034 bytes)
149: ...d (as in washing) is associated with the vocative lenition 'h' in Irish. That is, where h follows some lette...

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