lenite
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Back-formation from lenition.
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lenite (third-person singular simple present lenites, present participle leniting, simple past and past participle lenited)
- (phonetics, phonology, transitive) To cause (a consonant) to undergo lenition.
- This environment lenites "m" to "mh".
- (phonetics, phonology, intransitive) To undergo lenition.
- "M" lenites to "mh".
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lenite
- inflection of lenire:
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lenite f pl
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lēnīte