vocalic
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All these factors were equally true of the German vocalic shift.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
In Goidelic, we find two mutations, the vocalic and the nasal.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
So many unrelated functions were ultimately served by the vocalic change that we cannot believe that it was motivated by any one of them.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
It is far easier to dwell upon two-syllabled words with full vocalic endings like patro nia than upon awkward words like nostr patr.
From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Walter John Clark
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
