Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sonant"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sonant \So"nant\, a. [L. sonans, -antis, p. pr. of sonare to
sound. See {Sound} a noise.]
1. Of or pertaining to sound; sounding.
2. (Phonetics) 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. A
sonant letter.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sonant
adj : (linguistics) of speech sounds [syn: {voiced}] [ant: {surd}]
n : a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords
[syn: {voiced sound}]
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