vocalic

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Esperanto has wisely adopted full, vocalic, syllabic endings for words.

From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Clark, Walter John

In Goidelic, we find two mutations, the vocalic and the nasal.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

It has all the vocalic syllables and endings it needs for softness, and incloses them mostly in consonants for condensation, vigor, and emphasis.

From Essays Æsthetical by Calvert, George H. (George Henry)

When the word causing mutation ended in a vowel we get the vocalic mutation, called by Irish grammarians aspiration.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

Irish the initial mutations are only regularly denoted in the case of the vocalic mutation of c, p, t, s, f, and the nasal mutation of b, d, g.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various