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====Cliticization of Prepositions, Particles, and Determiners==== | ====Cliticization of Prepositions, Particles, and Determiners==== | ||
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===Changes to Geminate Consonants=== | ===Changes to Geminate Consonants=== | ||
Between 500‒650 a.d. all of the geminate consonants inherited from Griutungi were condensed to a single consonant. This also put an end to a persistent rule inherited from Proto-Germanic whereby geminate consonants collapsed before and obstruent or a word-boundary, there being no more geminate consonants to encounter such an environment. | Between 500‒650 a.d. all of the geminate consonants inherited from Griutungi were condensed to a single consonant. This also put an end to a persistent rule inherited from Proto-Germanic whereby geminate consonants collapsed before and obstruent or a word-boundary, there being no more geminate consonants to encounter such an environment. |