As if the 'internal evidence' of a poem containing no sonant final -e is not enough to condemn it at once.
The language is of late date, and the sonant final -e is decidedly scarce.
Defn: To utter with sonant or vocal tone; to pronounce with a narrowed glottis and rapid vibrations of the vocal cords; to speak above a whisper.
The guttural sonant check was palatalized in the Southeastern Branch, and there became j and z, while in the Northwestern Branch the same g was frequently labialized and became gv, v, and b.
Whether j in Sanskrit represents an original palatal sonant check or an original palatal sonant flatus can generally be determined by a reference to Zend, which represents the former by j, the latter by z.
In the same manner we ought in future to distinguish between a guttural sonant check, g, frequently palatalized in the Southeastern Branch (Sk.
There are various ways of testing the original surd or sonant nature of final consonants in Sanskrit.
To the brain without association of ideas that perception would only convey the presentation of having something bright or sonant in front of it.
We may say that the sonant consonant and its corresponding surd are the hard and soft forms of the same sound.
To utter with sonant or vocal tone; to pronounce with a narrowed glottis and rapid vibrations of the vocal cords; to speak above a whisper.
The rule of surd to surd and sonant to sonant is neglected in most of the factitious specimens of broken English.
On the other hand, z as the representative of sonant th, is legitimate in the broken English of a Frenchman.
The sonant n appears in Brythonic as an, whereas in Goidelic the nasal disappears before k, t with compensatory lengthening of the vowel, e.
When a surd follows the sonant or vice versa, either in the same word or in two neighboring words, then either the surd changes into a sonant or the sonant into a surd so that they are both of the same quality.
