Having been converted into or taking on the properties of a consonant; past tense of consonantalize.
Past tense/participle of consonantalize, from consonantal + -ize + -ed. Used in historical linguistics to describe sound changes across generations of language development.
When linguists trace consonantalized vowels, they're reading the history of languages—sounds change over centuries, and what was once a vowel becomes a consonant, leaving traces like fossils of extinct sounds.
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