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Between vowels, /p/ arising from /kʷ/ geminated: | Between vowels, /p/ arising from /kʷ/ geminated: | ||
*PGmc. ''[[wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/nakwô#Proto-Germanic|*nakwô]]'' → ''{{term|napp#Niemish|nàpp}}'' ("riverboat") | *PGmc. ''[[wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/nakwô#Proto-Germanic|*nakwô]]'' → ''{{term|napp#Niemish|nàpp}}'' ("riverboat") | ||
Presumably the same would have happened to /b/ arising from /gʷ/, but /gʷ/ did not occur after vowels in Gothic. | Presumably the same would have happened to /b/ arising from /gʷ/, but ungeminated /gʷ/ did not occur after vowels in Gothic. | ||
WHen /w/ followed any other consonant preceded by a vowel, it elided, causing the consonant to geminate in compensation (unless this consonant could not occur as a geminate in Niemish, in wich case the /w/ simply elided): | WHen /w/ followed any other consonant preceded by a vowel, it elided, causing the consonant to geminate in compensation (unless this consonant could not occur as a geminate in Niemish, in wich case the /w/ simply elided): | ||