D defs.my
Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Sonant

/sōnʹənt/ · So·nant · IPA /ˈsoʊ̯n.ənt/
01 a. Of or pertaining to sound; sounding.
  1. 1.
    Of or pertaining to sound; sounding.
  2. 2.
    Uttered, as an element of speech, with tone or proper vocal sound, as distinguished from mere breath sound; intonated; voiced; vocal; tonic; the opposite of nonvocal, or surd; -- said 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.(Phonetics)