CONSONANTAL • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Consonantal

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/kˌɑnsənˈɑntəl/ /kˌɑnsənˈɑnəl/ Listen

Consonantal

adjective

Being or marked by or containing or functioning as a consonant. "A consonantal Hebrew text" , "Consonantal alliteration" , "A consonantal cluster"

Relating to or having the nature of a consonant.

See images of 'Consonantal'

Etymology of 'Consonantal'

Related search:

consonantal system

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Consonantal" Quotes from Famous Books

... being used at first indifferently: they added the X sign; they converted the t of the Phoenicians into th, or theta; z and s into signs for double consonants; they turned the Phoenician y (yod) into i (iota). The Greeks converted the Phoenician alphabet, which was partly consonantal, into one purely phonetic—"a perfect instrument for the expression of spoken language." The w was also added to the Phoenician alphabet. The Romans added the y. At first i and j were both indicated by the same sound; a sign for j was afterward added. We have also, in common with other ...

— The Antediluvian World • Ignatius Donnelly

... their vowel and consonantal expressiveness, the past history of countless physical sensations, widely shared by innumerable individuals, and it is to this fact that the "transmission value" of ...

— A Study of Poetry • Bliss Perry

Words linked to "Consonantal" : vocalic, consonant