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The Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law was a sound change that occurred in the early West Germanic dialects of Old English, Old Frisian, and Old Saxon. It caused sequences of vowel + nasal consonant + fricative consonant to lose the nasal consonant, sometimes nasalizing and lengthening the preceding vowel, which later rounded in many cases. This accounts for differences between these languages and others like German in words containing combinations like -ns-, -mf-, and -nþ-. English consistently shows the results
- Author
- Metaleiro
- Language
- EN