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consonantism

noun

Etymology

From consonant + -ism.

  1. derived from σύμφωνον
  2. derived from cōnsonāns
  3. derived from consonant
  4. inherited from consonant
  5. suffixed as consonantism — “consonant + ism”

Definitions

  1. The consonant system of a language or dialect.

  2. The consonants, sequence of consonants, or the quality peculiar to the consonants of a…

    The consonants, sequence of consonants, or the quality peculiar to the consonants of a given word or group of words.

    • Still unexplained are geminate *-ll- in type 4, and the aberrant consonantism in type 3, where the *-r- found in the other forms appears to have been replaced with *-θ-

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for consonantism. 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