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''“A geminate becomes a single consonant when it occurs before another consonant or a word boundary.”'' | ''“A geminate becomes a single consonant when it occurs before another consonant or a word boundary.”'' This may have happened in two stages, the first being pre-consonantal and later before a word boundary, as evidenced by the retention of some word-final consonants in Gothic. | ||
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