11. The final step of lenition is then complete apocope. 12. Traditional orthography had an additional diacritica dot over some consonants to indicate lenition . 13. Is used in Irish orthography for the lenition of. 14. Lenition has its own significance when the plural prefix can optionally be omitted.15. The lenition tendency of palatalized consonants ( by assibilation and deaffrication ) is important. 16. Weakening suffixes trigger a kind of lenition . 17. In Gaelic type, a dot over a consonant indicates lenition of the consonant in question. 18. This phenomenon occurs because voiced fricatives have developed from lenition of plosives or fortition of approximants. 19. Most authors now assume both and, with subsequent lenition of in non-palatal environments. 20. It is possible that the reverse lenition of the initial / hj / to / ? /.
