vocalic

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Esperanto has wisely adopted full, vocalic, syllabic endings for words.

From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Clark, Walter John

Only later in the history of the language was the vocalic alternation made significant for number.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward

Nouns whose stems originally ended in a vowel belong to the vocalic or so-called strong declension.

From A Middle High German Primer Third Edition by Wright, Joseph

Some of these grammatical processes, like suffixing, are exceedingly wide-spread; others, like vocalic change, are less common but far from rare; still others, like accent and consonantal change, are somewhat exceptional as functional processes.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward

In certain cases the north prefers the vocalic mutation where the west and south have the nasal, thus notably in the dative singular after preposition and article, e.g.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various