User:Ceige/Something Germanic 2

Phonology

Vowels

Grouped by historically relevant orthography, not contemporary phonology

• Reduced: e
• Short: a, e, i, o, u
• Long: aa/å, ee, ii, oo, uu
• Diphthongs: åi, åu, ei, ie, oe, ui

Consonants

• p, t, k
• b, d, g
• m, n, ng
• f, s, h
• v, z, (g)
• ... and l, r, j, w

Sound Changes

From PWGmc Roots to Old

• Loss of most final vowels after umlauting
• Ingvaeonic spirant vowel lengthening:

• *munþ > mouth > måuw
• *tanþiz > teeth > tee
• *tanth > taath > taa

From Old to Modern

• Final -g causes diphthongisation

• weg > wei
• sag > såw
• lig > lij

• Long i/u diphthongise

• tijd > teid > taaid > tåid
• bruun > broun > braaun > bråun

• a and o before (coda?) r lengthen

• hert > hart > haart
• word/wurd > word > woord

• Medial th(d?) Lost in some wors

• weather = weer