consonantal

IPA: kɑnsʌnˈɑntʌɫ

Examples of "consonantal" in Sentences

Romantic experiment can only be told in the voweled curvature as well as the consonantal strokes of its patterned enunciations.
These may all imply less familiar consonantal clusters, final sounds, etc so you have the plasticity of the mouth coming into play too.
Eagleton calls words "which sound alike but do not rhyme exactly" a para-rhyme: "a semi-rhyme in which the consonantal sounds agree but the vowels do not" (167). close window
The pair YA-SA-SA-RA-ME (TL Za 1) ~ A-SA-SA-RA-ME (PR Za 1) only suggests a consonantal onset but this then is poor evidence for a purported morpheme that's independent of the word it precedes.
The source of the symbolism was pure word-play since in Egyptian, the word for 'to become' was *ḫāpar Sahidic ϣⲱⲡⲉ while the symbol for 'beetle' contained the same consonantal skeleton, ḫpr, but presumably with different vowels.
So much of the book is heavy with meaning and counter-meaning, innuendo and awful implication, that translation would be a challenge even without its freight of rich consonantal Manchester Yiddish – its mitzvahs, shiksas, farshimelts, meshuggeners and yisgadals.
Hebrew is considered the Holy Language par excellence, but it is interesting to note that although the consonantal text of the Hebrew Bible must be reproduced according to precise orthographic rules for ritual purposes, the Jewish tradition permits translations of the text into other languages.