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con·so·nan·tal

(kŏn′sə-năn′tl)

adj.

1. Of, relating to, or having the nature of a consonant.

2. Containing a consonant or consonants.

con′so·nan′tal·ly adv.

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consonantal

(ˌkɒnsəˈnæntəl)

adj

1. (Phonetics & Phonology) relating to, functioning as, or constituting a consonant, such as the semivowel w in English work

2. (Phonetics & Phonology) consisting of or characterized by consonants: a consonantal cluster.

ˌconsoˈnantally adv

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con•so•nan•tal

(ˌkɒn səˈnæn tl)

adj.

consisting of or containing consonants.

[1785–95]

con`so•nan′tal•ly, adv.

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Adj.	1.	consonantal - being or marked by or containing or functioning as a consonant; "consonantal sounds"; "a consonantal Hebrew text"; "consonantal alliteration"; "a consonantal cluster" vocalic - being or containing or characterized by vowels; "vocalic sounds"; "the Gaelic language being uncommonly vocalic"- Walter Scott
	2.	consonantal - relating to or having the nature of a consonant

Translations

consonantal

[ˌkɒnsəˈnæntl] ADJ → consonántico

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consonantal

adj → konsonantisch

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consonantal

[ˌkɒnsəˈnæntl] adj → consonantico/a

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The [d] in "red" is linked consonantally to a [d] in each of the other three stanzas: "depends" in stanza 1, "glazed" in stanza 3, and "beside" in stanza 4; and outside of stanza 2, consonantal [n] links "upon" in stanza 1, to "rain" in stanza 3, to "chickens" in stanza 4, and consonantal [z] links "depends" in stanza 1, to "glazed" in stanza 3, to "chickens" in stanza 4.

Readings in temporal poetics: four poems by William Carlos Williams

As all early Semitic languages, it was originally written consonantally, with the twenty-two symbols developed by another close relative, Phoenician: for example, BRGS.

On Borges's pesky Aleph

Fox suggests melek le-sadeh ne'evad be emended to bekol sadeh ne'evad [in every cultivated field], claiming that "Consonantally, this is a fairly minor change, from mlklsdh to bklsdh." (36) Here are three changes: (1) transposition of the letters "kaf" and "lamed;" (2) replacement of "mem" with "bet," and elimination of a " lamed." Metathesis is quite frequent in the Bible, but neither in the paleoscript nor in the square script are "mem" and "bet" orthographically similar enough to be easily confused.

The advantage of a country in Ecclesiastes 5:8

which are also used as third person pronouns, it is strange that the authors omitted Hadramitic, which presents the most interesting set, in that the masculine and feminine forms are distinguished consonantally.