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===Voicing and Devoicing of Consonant Clusters===
===Voicing and Devoicing of Consonant Clusters===
====Voicing of Word-Final /s/ after a Voiced Consonant====
====Voicing of Word-Final /s/ after a Voiced Consonant (~550 a.d.)====
Word-final /s/ was voiced after /b/, /d/, and /g/. (And thus I dispense with the mystery of what the phonetic and phonemic value of the /g/ of Gothic ''dags'' might have been!)
Word-final /s/ was voiced after /b/, /d/, and /g/. (And thus I dispense with the mystery of what the phonetic and phonemic value of the /g/ of Gothic ''dags'' might have been!)


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!width="75"| P.Gmc.
!width="75"| Gothic
!width="75"| Griut.
!width="75"| O.Val.
!width="75"| M.Val.
!width="75"| Valth.
!width="100"|  
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|style="text-align: center;"| '''''*þarbaz''''' <br />/θɑrbɑz/
|style="text-align: center;"| '''''þarbs''''' <br />/θɑrbs/
|style="text-align: center;"| '''''*þarbs''''' <br />/θɑrbs/
|style="text-align: center; background-color: palegreen;"| '''''þarbz''''' <br />/θɑrbʐ/
|style="text-align: center;"| '''''þarbž''''' <br />/θɑrbʒ/
|style="text-align: center;"| '''''þarbž''''' <br />/θɑrbʒ/
|style="text-align: left; vertical-align: text-top;"| ‘needy, needful’
|-
| style="text-align: center;"| '''''*wendaz''''' <br />/wendaz/
| style="text-align: center;"| '''''winds''''' <br />/winds/
| style="text-align: center;"| '''''*winds''''' <br />/winds/
| style="text-align: center; background-color: palegreen;"| '''''windz''''' <br />/windʐ/
| style="text-align: center;"| '''''windž''''' <br />/windʒ/
| style="text-align: center;"| '''''winǧ''''' <br />/winʤ/
|style="text-align: left; vertical-align: text-top;"| ‘wind’
|-
| style="text-align: center;"| '''''*dagaz''''' <br />/dɑɣɑz/
| style="text-align: center;"| '''''dags''''' <br />/dɑɡs/
| style="text-align: center;"| '''''*dags''''' <br />/dɑɡs/
| style="text-align: center; background-color: palegreen;"| '''''dagz''''' <br />/dɑɡʐ/
| style="text-align: center;"| '''''dagž''''' <br />/dɑɡʒ/
| style="text-align: center;"| '''''daǧ''''' <br />/dɑʤ/
|style="text-align: left; vertical-align: text-top;"| ‘day’
|}
|}


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