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History of Sound Changes

Sound changes from Proto-Germanic to Proto-NEEDANAME

/ɛː/ opens to /æː/
  • This has the effect of fronting long and short a afterwards.
/ɑ/ is centralised to /ä/ for both long and short variants.
/äː/ and /æː/ merge.
  • This eliminates a phoneme from the inventory, reducing it to an 8-vowel system, with /a/, /i/ and /u/ retaining the length distintions and /e/ and /ɔː/ lacking their long and short counterparts respectively.
/e/ opens to /ɛ/.
  • This must happen before /i/ in closed syllables opens to /e/. Presumably this also balances out the long /ɔː/.
/i/ and /u/ open in closed syllables
  • /i/ > /e/
  • /u/ > /o/
  • /i/ and /u/ in closed syllables shift to /e/ and /o/ respectively

ɑ

Proto-NEEDNAME to NEEDNAME#1

Umlauting

A-Umlaut