Mouillé

Mouillé

Mouillé (French for "moistened") is a term describing a palatal or palatalized consonant, particularly l or n.

Mouillé consonants
l mouillé n mouillé
French (i)ll (i)gn
Italian gl gn
Spanish ll ñ
Portuguese lh nh

Occurrence

L mouillé has a variety of origins in the Romance languages. In this table, letters that represent or used to represent palatal l (/ʎ/) are bolded. In French, /ʎ/ merged with /j/ in pronunciation in the 18th century; in many dialects of Spanish, /ʎ/ has merged or is merging with /ʝ/.

Latin meliōrem
"better"
auric(u)la
"ear"
caballum
"horse"
clavem
"key"
lunam
"moon"
Italian migliore orecchio cavallo chiave luna
French meilleur oreille cheval clef lune
Portuguese melhor orelha cavalo chave lua
Catalan millor orella cavall clau lluna
Spanish mejor oreja caballo llave luna