lenition

Etymology
Analyzable as, or as if from 🇨🇬 + , or 🇨🇬 from (attested since at least the 1500s, the same timeframe lenition is first attested in English with the sense "assuaging" ). Modelled on German.

Noun

 * 1)  A weakening of articulation causing a consonant to become lenis (soft).
 * 2) * 2008, Krzysztof Jaskula, Celtic, Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho, Tobias Scheer, Philippe Ségéral (editors), Lenition and Fortition, Studies in Generative Grammar: 99, page 347,
 * As for Goidelic languages, the situation is clearer because Lenition III in this subfamily consisted in losing the same property as the first two lenitions, namely stopness.
 * 1) * 2011, Naomi Gurevich, 66: Lenition, Marc van Oostendorp, Colin J. Ewen, Elizabeth V. Hume, Keren Rice (editors), The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, Volume III: Phonological Processes, page 1573,
 * Five general patterns of lenitions – all based to some extent on empirical data – are identified.
 * 1) * 2008, Krzysztof Jaskula, Celtic, Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho, Tobias Scheer, Philippe Ségéral (editors), Lenition and Fortition, Studies in Generative Grammar: 99, page 347,
 * As for Goidelic languages, the situation is clearer because Lenition III in this subfamily consisted in losing the same property as the first two lenitions, namely stopness.
 * 1) * 2011, Naomi Gurevich, 66: Lenition, Marc van Oostendorp, Colin J. Ewen, Elizabeth V. Hume, Keren Rice (editors), The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, Volume III: Phonological Processes, page 1573,
 * Five general patterns of lenitions – all based to some extent on empirical data – are identified.

Translations

 * Asturian: lenición
 * Breton: blotadur
 * Catalan: lenició
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 輔音弱化, 弱音化
 * Cornish: treylyans medhel
 * Dutch: lenitie,
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , mutation adoucissante
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ლენიცია
 * German: Lenierung,
 * Hebrew: החלשות עיצורים
 * Hungarian:, gyöngülés, mássalhangzó-gyengülés,
 * Irish: séimhiú
 * Italian: lenizione, mutazione dolce
 * Japanese: 子音弱化
 * Korean: 연음화(軟音化)
 * Latin: lenitio
 * Manx: boggaghys
 * Norwegian: lenisering, lenisjon
 * Polish: lenicja
 * Portuguese: lenização,
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian: lenitzione
 * Scottish Gaelic: analachadh, sèimheachadh
 * Sicilian: linizziuni
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh: meddaliad,