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mūta, and from there borrowed into English as mute. Mute was sometimes used instead for voiceless consonants, whether plosives or fricatives, a usage that...

"soul-body-letters") of a consonant and a vowel, a mute consonant or a vowel alone. The combinatory letters are formed by adding a vowel marker to the consonant. Some vowels...

symbolism, for instance: The mute consonants represent the earth, the sibilants the sky, the vowels heaven. The mute consonants represent fire, the sibilants...

the third-group verbs, one can find past participles ending with a mute consonant, such as mis and fait, and those do change pronunciation.) The past...

whose singular form ended in D and T was modified to reinsert this mute consonant, so as to bring the plural in morphological alignment with the singular...

except by some words with double-consonant sequences where the first consonant was mute or not (the mute consonants do not exist anymore, since the last...

In jan pi pona mute, pona mute as a unit means 'much goodness', to together mean 'very good person'. mute modifies pona, and pona mute as a whole modifies...

that the vowel is long: In the word erhöhen ('heighten'), the second ⟨h⟩ is mute for most speakers outside of Switzerland. In 1901, a spelling reform eliminated...

associations (collocations). Most frequently, liaison arises from a mute word-final consonant that used to be pronounced, but in some cases it is inserted from...

case when it follows a single consonant in a medial syllable: appeler /apəle/ → [ap.le] ('to call'), It is occasionally mute in word-final position: porte...

versa.) Due to the peculiar orthography of French, which denotes mute final consonants, most feminine forms seem regular in terms of their spelling because...

the spellings eu, ew, uCV (where C is any consonant and V is any vowel), ue and ui, as in feud, few, mute, cue and suit, while the historical monophthong...

Where the phoneme has no standard single-letter representation, as with consonants ⟨ng⟩ for /ŋ/ as in sing, ⟨th⟩ for /θ/ as in thin or /ð/ as in then, diphthongs...

silent consonant in common), and "tante" with "attente" a rich rhyme (with the vowel, the onset consonant, and the coda consonant with its mute "e" in...

to be mute, their role being purely indicative of the non-marked vowel. Niqqud is the system of dots that help determine vowels and consonants. In Hebrew...

héros prevents the liaison, in which the otherwise-silent word-final consonant would be pronounced before the first vowel of the following word. Because...

disyllabic and the common noun form is a consonant + vowel + consonant + vowel. The final vowel is usually semi-mute. Examples: ŋwon(o) - child, njɨl(i) -...

that grew out of the Geʽez script. The segmental writing system in which consonant-vowel sequences are written as units is called an abugida (አቡጊዳ). The...

smaller number of cases it affected the pronunciation of a preceding consonant. When the inflection disappeared in speech, but remained as a historical...

other diacritics used in the Telugu script. ్ mutes the vowel of a consonant, so that only the consonant is pronounced. ం and ఁ nasalize the vowels or...