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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 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/. | ||
{| | {| style="vertical-align: text-top; border-spacing: 0; padding: 0;" | ||
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| '''f''' | |||
| → | |||
| '''þ''' | |||
| / | |||
| # ___ l | |||
|} | |} | ||
'' | ''“Word-initial '''f''' becomes '''þ''' before '''l'''.”'' | ||
===Changes to Geminate Consonants=== | ===Changes to Geminate Consonants=== | ||