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asonant

adj
/eɪ̯ˈsoʊ̯n.ənt/

Etymology

From a- + sonant.

  1. borrowed from sonāns
  2. prefixed as asonant — “a + sonant”

Definitions

  1. Not sounding or sounded

    Not sounding or sounded; silent.

    • The first d in "Wednesday" and the s in "aisle" are asonant.
    • Thus reponens is an asonant rhyme to deprœlian in the following stanza.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for asonant. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA