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West Germanic gemination was a sound change that took place in all West Germanic languages around the 3rd or 4th century AD. It affected consonants directly followed by /j/, which were generally lengthened or geminated in that position. Because of Sievers' law, only consonants immediately after a short vowel were affected by the process.
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WestGermanicgemination was a sound change that took place in all WestGermanic languages around the 3rd or 4th century AD. It affected consonants directly...
released before the articulation of the second /t/. Syntactic geminationWestGermanicgemination Glottal stop Length (phonetics) Vowel length Syllabic consonant...
this change must have occurred after the loss of word-final /z/. WestGermanicgemination: lengthening of all consonants except /r/ before /j/.; this change...
causes umlaut in the present where possible. In WestGermanic, it also causes the WestGermanicgemination. The forms of class 7 were very different and...
WestGermanicgeminationGermanic languages Germanic substrate hypothesis This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Germanic sound...
consonant differences have an unrelated origin, being a result of the WestGermanicgemination and a subsequent process of levelling. This shift also is only...
disappeared in most verbs in old Germanic languages other than Gothic and Old Saxon. (It also resulted in WestGermanicgemination in some verbs, and palatalization...
word-finally). WestGermanicgemination of consonants, except r, before /j/. This only occurred in short-stemmed words due to Sievers' law. Gemination of /p/...
century), and by the j-consonant gemination (attested from ca. 400 BCE); early inscriptions from the WestGermanic areas found on altars where votive...
English is one of the WestGermanic languages, and its closest relatives are Old Frisian and Old Saxon. Like other old Germanic languages, it is very...
deer Intervocalic ðw > ww. Hardening: ð > d, β > v, and ɸ > f. WestGermanicgemination: single consonants followed by /j/ except /r/ became double (geminate)...
Note that in Proto-Germanic, the non-Sievers'-law variant -j- occurred only after short syllables, but due to WestGermanicgemination, a consonant directly...
tense. This suffix caused doubling of the preceding consonant (the WestGermanicgemination) and changed the preceding vowel from e to i. The verb eten is...
vakna; and the absence of gemination before j, or (in the case of old Norse) only g geminated before j, e.g. Proto-Germanic *kunją > Gothic kuni (kin)...
supra-regional form of German, Old High German encompasses the numerous WestGermanic dialects that had undergone the set of consonantal changes called the...
law presumably lost relevance in the WestGermanic languages after the operation of the WestGermanicgemination since it eliminated the contrast between...
phonology will recognize some typical West-Germanic phonological features also found in Old English, such as gemination and the different pronunciations of...
Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages....
Vowel Shift, which began during the later Middle English period. Loss of gemination (double consonants came to be pronounced as single ones) Loss of weak...
1017/S0025100312000278 Goblirsch, Kurt (2018), Gemination, Lenition, and Vowel Lengthening: On the History of Quantity in Germanic, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1-107-03450-1...
tsneachta /ə ˈt̪ɾʲæːxt̪ˠə/. All surviving Germanic languages, which are members of the North and WestGermanic families, changed /z/ to /r/, implying a...
dialect continuum of all high-medieval Continental Germanic dialects outside MHG, from Flanders in the West to the eastern Baltic. Middle Low German covered...
*yi-nqaṭil-u 'he will be killed'. The D-stem (Hebrew piʕel) is marked by gemination of the second radical in all forms. It has a range of different meanings...
1017/S0025100312000278 Goblirsch, Kurt (2018), Gemination, Lenition, and Vowel Lengthening: On the History of Quantity in Germanic, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1-107-03450-1...
preserve the pharyngeal consonants /ħ/ and (less commonly) /ʕ/, preserve gemination, and pronounce /e/ in some places where non-Oriental speakers do not have...
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