The term “movable consonant” refers to a set of lexically-specified consonants (n, s, k) that alternate with zero under certain conditions at the edge of a word. In the linguistics literature, they are more often known as “latent segments” (e.g. Hansson 2005); Devine and Stephens (1994:252) also use the term “antihiatic consonant”. Of the three movable consonants, nu, which was termed nu ephelkustikón (‘attracted, suffi…