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===Change of /fl/ to /θl/=== | ===Change of /fl/ to /θl/=== | ||
This is an expansion of an earlier change in East Germanic in which /fl/ became /θl/ in certain questionable environments which may or may not have included back vowels and velar consonants (there are only a handful of attested words where this change appears in writings of the time). Shortly after the Griutungi split, all remaining word-initial instances of /fl/ became /θl/. | This is an expansion of an earlier change in East Germanic in which /fl/ became /θl/ in certain questionable environments which may or may not have included back vowels and/or velar consonants (there are only a handful of attested words where this change appears in writings of the time). Shortly after the Griutungi split, all remaining word-initial instances of /fl/ became /θl/. | ||
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''“Word-initial '''f''' becomes '''þ''' before '''l'''.”'' | ''“Word-initial '''f''' becomes '''þ''' before '''l'''.”'' | ||
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{| class="bluetable" | |||
|- | |||
!width="75"| P.Gmc. | |||
!width="75"| Gothic | |||
!width="75"| Griut. | |||
!width="75"| O.Val. | |||
!width="75"| M.Val. | |||
!width="75"| Valth. | |||
!width="100"| | |||
|- | |||
|style="text-align: center;"| '''''*fleuganą''''' <br />/fleugɑnɑ͂/ | |||
|style="text-align: center; background-color: paleturquoise;"| '''''*þliugan''''' <br />/θliu̯ɡɑn/ | |||
|style="text-align: center; background-color: palegreen;"| '''''*þliugan''''' <br />/θliu̯ɡɑn/ | |||
|style="text-align: center;"| '''''þljugan''''' <br />/θljuɡɑn/ | |||
|style="text-align: center;"| '''''þljugan''''' <br />/θljuɡn̩/ | |||
|style="text-align: center;"| '''''þljugna''''' <br />/θljuɡnɑ/ | |||
|style="text-align: left; vertical-align: text-top;"| ‘to fly’ | |||
|- | |||
| style="text-align: center;"| '''''*flehtiz''''' <br />/flehtiz/ | |||
| style="text-align: center; background-color: paleturquoise;"| '''''þlaihts''''' <br />/θlɛhts/ | |||
| style="text-align: center; background-color: palegreen;"| '''''*þlehts''''' <br />/θlehts/ | |||
| style="text-align: center;"| '''''*þlehts''''' <br />/θlehts/ | |||
| style="text-align: center;"| '''''þlǣts''''' <br />/θleːts/ | |||
| style="text-align: center;"| '''''þlǣts''''' <br />/θle̞ːts/ | |||
|style="text-align: left; vertical-align: text-top;"| ‘comfort’ | |||
|- | |||
| style="text-align: center;"| '''''*flōduz''''' <br />/floːðuz/ | |||
| style="text-align: center;"| '''''flōdus''''' <br />/floːðus/ | |||
| style="text-align: center;"| '''''*flōdus''''' <br />/floːðus/ | |||
| style="text-align: center; background-color: palegreen;"| '''''þlōðus''''' <br />/θlou̯ðus/ | |||
| style="text-align: center;"| '''''þlōðus''''' <br />/θlɔu̯ðus/ | |||
| style="text-align: center;"| '''''þlōðus''''' <br />/θlau̯ðus/ | |||
|style="text-align: left; vertical-align: text-top;"| ‘river’ | |||
|} | |||
===Voicing and Devoicing of Consonant Clusters=== | ===Voicing and Devoicing of Consonant Clusters=== | ||