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...

released before the articulation of the second /t/. Syntactic gemination West Germanic gemination Glottal stop Length (phonetics) Vowel length Syllabic consonant...

this change must have occurred after the loss of word-final /z/. West Germanic gemination: lengthening of all consonants except /r/ before /j/.; this change...

rule continued to apply at least into the early West Germanic languages, since the West Germanic gemination produced geminated plosives from earlier voiced...

causes umlaut in the present where possible. In West Germanic, it also causes the West Germanic gemination. The forms of class 7 were very different and...

disappeared in most verbs in old Germanic languages other than Gothic and Old Saxon. (It also resulted in West Germanic gemination in some verbs, and palatalization...

West Germanic gemination Germanic 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 West Germanic gemination and a subsequent process of levelling. This shift also is only...

vowel in languages other than Gothic. The -j- caused West Germanic gemination in the West Germanic languages in short-stem verbs ending in a consonant...

word-finally). West Germanic gemination 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 West Germanic areas found on altars where votive...

English is one of the West Germanic 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. West Germanic gemination: single consonants followed by /j/ except /r/ became double (geminate)...

The West Germanic languages such as English largely lost the alternation because of the effects of the West Germanic gemination, but the gemination itself...

Note that in Proto-Germanic, the non-Sievers'-law variant -j- occurred only after short syllables, but due to West Germanic gemination, a consonant directly...

tense. This suffix caused doubling of the preceding consonant (the West Germanic gemination) 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 West Germanic dialects that had undergone the set of consonantal changes called the...

phonology will recognize some typical West-Germanic phonological features also found in Old English, such as gemination and the different pronunciations of...

law presumably lost relevance in the West Germanic languages after the operation of the West Germanic gemination since it eliminated the contrast between...

Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages....

Non-affricated reflexes of /kj/ are found in some borrowings into West Germanic, for instance the Old High German echol and Old Saxon ekil 'steel' <...

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...

Latin. As an ancient Germanic language, the morphological system of Old Saxon is similar to that of the hypothetical Proto-Germanic reconstruction, retaining...

*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...

tsneachta /ə ˈt̪ɾʲæːxt̪ˠə/. All surviving Germanic languages, which are members of the North and West Germanic families, changed /z/ to /r/, implying a...

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...

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...

law involves the gemination, or doubling, of PIE semivowels (glides) * -y- and * -w- in strong prosodic positions into Proto-Germanic *-jj- and *-ww-,...