consonantize

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Etymology edit

Verb edit

consonantize (third-person singular simple present consonantizes, present participle consonantizing, simple past and past participle consonantized)

(transitive) To change into, or use as, a consonant.
- 1869, John Peile, Introduction to Greek and Latin Etymology:
  The vowel is consonantized, that is, made closer in position.
(intransitive) To become a consonant; to be used as a consonant

References edit

“consonantize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.