Meanings
- nonstandardrareuncountablehuman sciencesVoicing (“process by which a phoneme becomes voiced”).
Sonorants do not normally precede voiceless obstruents within a morpheme due to the historical process of voicening (see 4.2.5).
2011, Irina Nikolaeva, A Historical Dictionary of Yukaghir, page 353 more examples
In spite of its preservation of intervocalic surd stops and of s, Wkh. follows the other Pamir languages in the voicening of the groups ft and xt.
1929, Georg Morgenstierne, Indo-Iranian Frontier Languages, volume 2, page 465Moreover, the claim of a voicening reflex of Altaic /-1 2-/ in Japanese would have to be defended against contrary evidence (e.g., hakani) and against Japanese word-internal voicening as a means of lexical diversification.
1981, Monumenta Nipponica: Studies on Japanese Culture, Past and PresentNorthern dialects tend toward intervocalic voicening of s (e.g., bala-zı [childPOSS.3.SG] 'his/her child' instead of bala-sı [child-POSS.3.SG]), a feature typical of the South Siberian Turkic languages.
2010, Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World, page 612
Origin
Alteration of voicing, probably by analogy to lengthening.
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