Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law
E23901
Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law is a historical sound change in early Germanic languages that caused the loss of nasal consonants before fricatives, leaving characteristic vowel changes in Anglo-Frisian and related dialects.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law canonical | 3 |
| Anglo-Frisian vowel systems | 1 |
| Ingvaeonic nasal spirant rule | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T188538 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law Context triple: [Anglo-Frisian dialects, hasLinguisticFeature, Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law]
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A.
Great Vowel Shift (late phase)
The Great Vowel Shift (late phase) was the final stage of a major historical change in English pronunciation during which many long vowel sounds in Middle English moved closer to their modern English values.
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B.
The Sound Pattern of English
The Sound Pattern of English is a foundational 1968 work in generative phonology by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle that systematically analyzes the phonological component of grammar within the framework of transformational-generative linguistics.
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C.
Anglo-Frisian dialects
Anglo-Frisian dialects are a group of closely related West Germanic speech varieties historically spoken in parts of England and Frisia that formed the linguistic basis for modern English and Frisian languages.
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D.
Carolinian
Carolinian is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in the Northern Mariana Islands, closely related to other Micronesian languages and central to the cultural identity of the Carolinian people.
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E.
Lombardic
Lombardic is an extinct West Germanic language once spoken by the Lombards in parts of Italy during the early Middle Ages.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law Target entity description: Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law is a historical sound change in early Germanic languages that caused the loss of nasal consonants before fricatives, leaving characteristic vowel changes in Anglo-Frisian and related dialects.
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A.
Great Vowel Shift (late phase)
The Great Vowel Shift (late phase) was the final stage of a major historical change in English pronunciation during which many long vowel sounds in Middle English moved closer to their modern English values.
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B.
The Sound Pattern of English
The Sound Pattern of English is a foundational 1968 work in generative phonology by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle that systematically analyzes the phonological component of grammar within the framework of transformational-generative linguistics.
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C.
Anglo-Frisian dialects
Anglo-Frisian dialects are a group of closely related West Germanic speech varieties historically spoken in parts of England and Frisia that formed the linguistic basis for modern English and Frisian languages.
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D.
Carolinian
Carolinian is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in the Northern Mariana Islands, closely related to other Micronesian languages and central to the cultural identity of the Carolinian people.
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E.
Lombardic
Lombardic is an extinct West Germanic language once spoken by the Lombards in parts of Italy during the early Middle Ages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical linguistic phenomenon
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phonological law ⓘ sound change ⓘ |
| affects |
fricatives
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nasal consonants ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law
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surface form:
Ingvaeonic nasal spirant rule
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| appliesTo |
Anglo-Frisian dialects
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surface form:
Ingvaeonic languages
Old English ⓘ Old Frisian ⓘ Old Saxon ⓘ |
| contrastWith |
Grimm's law
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High German consonant shift ⓘ Verner's law ⓘ |
| environment | nasal consonant before fricative ⓘ |
| evidenceFrom |
cognate sets across Germanic languages
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comparative reconstruction of Germanic ⓘ |
| languageFamilyContext | Germanic languages ⓘ |
| leavesTraceIn |
Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Anglo-Frisian vowel systems
Old English orthography ⓘ Old Frisian orthography ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Anglo-Frisian dialects
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surface form:
Ingvaeonic
|
| notAppliesTo | all Germanic languages ⓘ |
| regionalAssociation |
West Germanic languages
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surface form:
North Sea Germanic
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| result |
compensatory vowel changes
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lengthening of preceding vowel ⓘ loss of nasal consonant ⓘ nasalization of preceding vowel ⓘ |
| scope | clusters of nasal plus fricative ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
Germanic linguistics
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historical phonology ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
early Middle Ages
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early West Germanic ⓘ |
| typeOfChange | regressive assimilation ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law Description of subject: Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law is a historical sound change in early Germanic languages that caused the loss of nasal consonants before fricatives, leaving characteristic vowel changes in Anglo-Frisian and related dialects.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ingvaeonic nasal spirant rule
Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law
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leavesTraceIn
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Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Anglo-Frisian vowel systems