consonantalize
verbEtymology From consonantal + -ize.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Sciences To become, or cause to become, (more) consonantal.
- It is usually defined as a process whereby front vowels consonantalize (palatalize) to the semivowel /j/ when followed by certain other vowels [...] or whereby back vowels consonantalize (labiovelarize) to the semivowel /w/ [...]2006, Casper Jan Hendrik Krüger, R.S. Pretorius, Introduction to the morphology of Setswana, →ISBN: