consonantize

consonant +‎ -ize

consonantize (third-person singular simple present consonantizes, present participle consonantizing, simple past and past participle consonantized)

1. (transitive) To change into, or use as, a consonant.
   • 1869, John Peile, Introduction to Greek and Latin Etymology:

     The vowel is consonantized, that is, made closer in position.

2. (intransitive) To become a consonant; to be used as a consonant

• “consonantize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.