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==Major Changes from Griutungi to Old Valthungian== | ==Major Changes from Griutungi to Old Valthungian== | ||
===Variation and Expansion of East Germanic Glide Insertion=== | ===Variation and Expansion of East Germanic Glide Insertion=== | ||
Glide Insertion in East Germanic developed differently in Gothic and Griutungi. In Gothic, | |||
it applied optionally between two consecutive vowels only after a stressed vowel when one | |||
</ | of the vowels was /i(ː)/ (e.g. ''saian'' /sɛ̄an/ ‘to sow’ could have a third person singular | ||
of either ''saiiþ'' /sɛ̄iθ/ or ''saijiþ'' /sɛ̄jiθ/. In Griutungi, however, it applies to both | |||
front and back glide insertion (/j/ and /w/), is not optional, and applies to any consecutive | |||
vowels where one of the vowels is not <code>+low</code>, so both the infinitive and third | |||
person singular present indicative of ‘sew’ show glide insertion: ''sǣjan'', ''sǣjiþ''. | |||
===Germanic Obstruent Devoicing=== | ===Germanic Obstruent Devoicing=== | ||