Category:Sonant

So"nant, a. Etym: [l. sonans, -antis, p.pr. of sonare to sound. See Sound a noise.]

1. Of or pertaining to sound; sounding.

2. (phonetics)

Defn: uttered, as an element of speech, with tone or proper vocal Sound, as distinguished from mere breath sound; intonated; voiced; Tonic; the opposite of nonvocal, or surd; -- sid of the vowels, Semivowels, liquids, and nasals, and particularly of the consonants B, d, g hard, v, etc., as compared with their cognates p, t, k, f, Etc., which are called nonvocal, surd, or aspirate. -- n.

Defn: a sonant letter.