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E.g. ''razda'' ‘language’ → ''rasta'', ''azgō'' ‘ashes’ →  ''askō'' …''aska''.
E.g. ''razda'' ‘language’ → ''rasta'', ''azgō'' ‘ashes’ →  ''askō'' …''aska''.
===Change of /fl/ to /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;"
|-
|  
| '''f'''
|  → 
| '''þ'''
|  / 
| # ___ l
|}
''“Word-initial '''f''' becomes '''þ''' before '''l'''.”''


===Changes to Geminate Consonants===
===Changes to Geminate Consonants===

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