·noun A sonant letter.
II. Sonant ·adj Of or pertaining to sound; sounding.
III. Sonant ·adj 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.