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===Eclipsis=== Eclipsis originally stems from the historical [[fusion (linguistics)|coalescence]] of consonant clusters beginning with a nasal, both word internally and across word boundaries, i.e if a word ended in a nasal and the next word began with a stop or labial fricative, they would coalesce. Today, many of the former final nasals have been elided, but still have an effect on the pronunciation of a following consonant, which has been [[grammaticisation|grammaticised]]. For example, the Proto-Celtic genitive plural of the definite article ''*sindoisom'' has lost its final nasal and been reduced to {{lang|ga|na}} but it now causes the eclipsis of a following consonant or the prothesis of {{vr|n-}} to a vowel. The cluster reductions involved in eclipsis turned nasal stops followed by a voiced stop into nasal stops, nasal stops followed by a voiceless stop into voiced plosives, nasal stops followed by a voiceless labial fricative into a voiced fricative, and words which have lost their final nasal add an {{vr|n-}} to vowel initial words. These cluster reductions did not only occur word initially, though non-initial coalescence was never grammaticised. For example, Proto-Celtic ''*lindos'' → {{lang|sga|lind}} → {{lang|ga|linn}} "pool", and ''*kʷenkʷe'' → {{lang|sga|cóic}} → {{lang|ga|cúig}} "five".
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