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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
lenite .
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Examples
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A sensible compromise is obvious: TO and TU might be automatically lenited in similar fashion to the development of Japanese dental affricates from their respective plosives neighbouring a +back vowel.
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In my theory, nothing yields "glottalics" because the Old IE ejectives have already been lenited before contact with Proto-Semitic.
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"Additionally, since it seems like coda stops were lenited into fricatives" evidence? particulary of Pre-IE *-k becoming a fricative as opposed to a glottal stop?
Back to business: emphatic particles and verbal extensions 2008
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At this stage in Mid IE, ejectives would have already lenited to creaky stops.
Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing 2008
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Additionally, since it seems like coda stops were lenited into fricatives, *h1 could also come from coda *k plus non-low vowel and *h2 from coda *k plus low vowel.
Back to business: emphatic particles and verbal extensions 2008
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Either the labialization was absorbed there or the bilabial stops were lenited.
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The ni- is the 3rd person possessive prefix. ijV and igV both get lenited and come out the same.
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Here we have a postvocalic /b/ that is not lenited.
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The most you can say quickly is that word-initial consonants are never lenited, and word-final ones always are; but the lenition of word-medial consonants is at least partly governed by morphology.
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