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has gloss | eng: West Germanic gemination is a sound change that took place in all West Germanic languages, around 300 AD. All single consonants except were geminated (doubled) after a short vowel and before ; sometimes also before , , and . A similar change occurred in the history of Old Norse, but was much more limited, applying only after and . This change particularly affected the infinitives of the first conjugation of weak verbs, which ended in . By historical times (c. 800-900 AD), all of the West Germanic languages except Old Saxon had dropped the . The also triggered i-Mutation, as well as palatalization in Old English and Old Frisian. Examples: |
lexicalization | eng: West Germanic Gemination |
instance of | language/gmw |
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