The consonant system was still that of PIE minus palatovelars and laryngeals, but the loss of syllabic resonants already made the language markedly different from PIE proper. |
In older usage, only the term resonant was used with this meaning, and sonorant was a narrower term, referring to all resonants except vowels and semivowels. |
This Proto-Indo-European system of vowels contrasting with resonants was reshaped in Germanic by a number of changes. |