soft mutation
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Noun
soft mutation (countable and uncountable, plural soft mutations)
- (linguistics) An alteration of the initial consonant of a word which occurs in certain Celtic languages under particular linguistic circumstances; lenition.
Translations
word-initial consonant alteration
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