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vocalic
adjective as in sonant
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A final w is vocalic, as in 'few.'
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Further, Cornish does not change th, đ to s, z as in Breton, e.g. beth, “grave,” Br. bez, W. bedd, and initial g disappears in the vocalic mutation as in Welsh.
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Nouns whose stems originally ended in a vowel belong to the vocalic or so-called strong declension.
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It is occasionally varied to al and el, to correspond to the last preceding vowel, but this “vocalic echo” is not common in Maya.
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Esperanto has wisely adopted full, vocalic, syllabic endings for words.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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