sonorize

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verb

To increase in sonority; to become more sonorous.

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Meanings

verbsonorize (third-person singular simple present sonorizes, present participle sonorizing, simple past and past participle sonorized)

present singular third person sonorizes · participle present sonorizing · participle past sonorized · past sonorized

  1. To increase in sonority; to become more sonorous.

    However, it is not possible to derive the forms of type 1 from Lat. lacūna too, since inherited singleton -c- would have sonorized to **-ɣ- in most dialects.

    2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 326
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