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The Germanic spirant law, or Primärberührung, is a specific historical instance in linguistics of dissimilation that occurred as part of an exception of Grimm's law in Proto-Germanic, the ancestor of Germanic languages.

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Germanic spirant law

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/ / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The Germanic spirant law, or Primärberührung, is a specific historical instance in linguistics...

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Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law

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linguistics, the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law (also called the Anglo-Frisian or North Sea Germanic nasal spirant law) is a description of a phonological...

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North Sea Germanic

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English and Old Saxon is as follows: The so-called Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law: converted *munþ "mouth" into *mų̄þ (compare Old English mūþ). Loss of...

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Germanic sound shifts

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Proto-Germanic itself, and in various Germanic subfamilies and languages. Germanic spirant law Grimm's law Holtzmann's law Sievers' law Verner's law Kluge's...

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West Germanic languages

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The West Germanic languages constitute the largest of the three branches of the Germanic family of languages (the others being the North Germanic and the...

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Germanic strong verb

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root vowel or diphthong was deleted in the past plural stem. The Germanic spirant law caused devoicing in certain consonants where applicable. *haitaną:...

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Germanic languages

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and Low German, but not High German: The so-called Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law, with loss of /n/ before voiceless fricatives: e.g. *munþ, *gans > Old...

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List of English irregular verbs

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beseeched/besought Weak, class 1, subclass (ii), with Rückumlaut and Germanic spirant law (now regularized) bet – bet/betted – bet/betted underbet – underbet/underbetted...

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Lenition

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Spanish. Apophony Begadkefat Chain shift Consonant mutation Germanic spirant law Grimm's Law High German consonant shift Historical linguistics Rendaku...

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English irregular verbs

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verbs can be found under Germanic weak verb; those with -gh- in the spelling were also affected by the Germanic spirant law. A few weak verbs have undergone...

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Grammatischer Wechsel

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denken:dachte) is a result of a later development in Germanic known as the Germanic spirant law. Likewise, the terminal devoicing that produces a fortis-lenis...

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Frisian languages

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loss of the Germanic nasal in words like us (ús; uns in German), soft (sêft; sanft) or goose (goes; Gans): see Anglo-Frisian nasal spirant law. Also, when...

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Sound change

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Anglo-Frisian nasal spirant law Canaanite shift Cot-caught merger Dahl's law Grassmann's law Great Vowel Shift (English) Grimm's law High German consonant...

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Surface filter

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surface filters in the history of the Germanic languages were Sievers' law and the Germanic spirant law. Sievers' law caused a restriction on the distribution...

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Low German

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partially preserved in Low German, for instance the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law (some dialects have us, os for "us" whereas others have uns, ons), and...

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Old English

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I-mutation Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law List of generic forms in place names in the United Kingdom and Ireland List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents...

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Dutch conjugation

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their past with irregularly because of an early Germanic development called the "Germanic spirant law". Both the vowel and the consonant change, sometimes...

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Compensatory lengthening

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became /aɪ/ by the Great Vowel Shift.) Both the Germanic spirant law and the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law show vowel lengthening compensating for the loss...

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Old Dutch

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lesser degree) Old Saxon share the application of the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law. Old Dutch was considerably less affected than those other three languages...

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Brithenig

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Brithenig is an important feature. There are three mutations: soft (moillad), spirant (solwed), and nasal (naral). Soft mutation are used with feminine nouns...

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Phonological history of Old English

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see Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law. The Anglo-Frisian languages underwent a sound change in their development from Proto-West-Germanic by which ā [ɑː], unless...

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Old Saxon

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a Germanic tribe that inhabited the region of Saxony. It partially shares Anglo-Frisian's (Old Frisian, Old English) Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law which...

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