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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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/ / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The Germanicspirantlaw, or Primärberührung, is a specific historical instance in linguistics...
linguistics, the Ingvaeonic nasal spirantlaw (also called the Anglo-Frisian or North Sea Germanic nasal spirantlaw) is a description of a phonological...
English and Old Saxon is as follows: The so-called Ingvaeonic nasal spirantlaw: converted *munþ "mouth" into *mų̄þ (compare Old English mūþ). Loss of...
Proto-Germanic itself, and in various Germanic subfamilies and languages. Germanicspirantlaw Grimm's law Holtzmann's law Sievers' law Verner's law Kluge's...
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...
root vowel or diphthong was deleted in the past plural stem. The Germanicspirantlaw caused devoicing in certain consonants where applicable. *haitaną:...
and Low German, but not High German: The so-called Ingvaeonic nasal spirantlaw, with loss of /n/ before voiceless fricatives: e.g. *munþ, *gans > Old...
beseeched/besought Weak, class 1, subclass (ii), with Rückumlaut and Germanicspirantlaw (now regularized) bet – bet/betted – bet/betted underbet – underbet/underbetted...
verbs can be found under Germanic weak verb; those with -gh- in the spelling were also affected by the Germanicspirantlaw. A few weak verbs have undergone...
denken:dachte) is a result of a later development in Germanic known as the Germanicspirantlaw. Likewise, the terminal devoicing that produces a fortis-lenis...
loss of the Germanic nasal in words like us (ús; uns in German), soft (sêft; sanft) or goose (goes; Gans): see Anglo-Frisian nasal spirantlaw. Also, when...
Anglo-Frisian nasal spirantlaw Canaanite shift Cot-caught merger Dahl's law Grassmann's law Great Vowel Shift (English) Grimm's law High German consonant...
surface filters in the history of the Germanic languages were Sievers' law and the Germanicspirantlaw. Sievers' law caused a restriction on the distribution...
partially preserved in Low German, for instance the Ingvaeonic nasal spirantlaw (some dialects have us, os for "us" whereas others have uns, ons), and...
I-mutation Ingvaeonic nasal spirantlaw List of generic forms in place names in the United Kingdom and Ireland List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents...
their past with irregularly because of an early Germanic development called the "Germanicspirantlaw". Both the vowel and the consonant change, sometimes...
became /aɪ/ by the Great Vowel Shift.) Both the Germanicspirantlaw and the Ingvaeonic nasal spirantlaw show vowel lengthening compensating for the loss...
lesser degree) Old Saxon share the application of the Ingvaeonic nasal spirantlaw. Old Dutch was considerably less affected than those other three languages...
Brithenig is an important feature. There are three mutations: soft (moillad), spirant (solwed), and nasal (naral). Soft mutation are used with feminine nouns...
see Ingvaeonic nasal spirantlaw. The Anglo-Frisian languages underwent a sound change in their development from Proto-West-Germanic by which ā [ɑː], unless...
a Germanic tribe that inhabited the region of Saxony. It partially shares Anglo-Frisian's (Old Frisian, Old English) Ingvaeonic nasal spirantlaw which...