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===Palatalization=== | ===Palatalization=== | ||
Palatalization is another historic rule that is no longer persistent in Gutish, but has wide-ranging implications for inflections in Gutish. There are actually several types of palatalization that occur in Gutish, but they can all be boiled down into the following rules: | |||
*Masculine and feminine nouns whose roots end in ‹d› or ‹g› become palatalized before ‹s› in the nominative singular of a-, i-, and u-stems (but not feminine ō-stems). E.g. Gothic ''dags'' ‘day’ becomes ''daǧ''. This type of palatalization only occurs when there was a /dz/ or /gz/ present in the language at some point historically (from Gothic /ds/ or /gs/). | |||
*A much more common form of palatalization, however, is that which occurs whenever the ending of a noun, verb, or adjective begins with ‹j›, e.g. strong masculine ja-stem nouns or adjectives or class 1 weak verbs. In these cases, the following occurs: | |||
**‹d› or ‹g› + ‹j› → ‹ǧ› | |||
**‹t› or ‹k› + ‹j› → ‹č› | |||
**‹s› or ‹h› + ‹j› → ‹š› | |||
**‹z› + ‹j› → ‹ž› (and so do all other instances of ‹z›, but that’s not applicable to this section.) | |||
===[b]/[v] Alternation=== | ===[b]/[v] Alternation=== | ||