Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law

GPTKB entity

Statements (18)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf sound law
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:North_Sea_Germanic_spirant_law
gptkbp:appliesTo gptkb:Ingvaeonic_languages
gptkb:Old_English
gptkb:Old_Frisian
gptkb:Old_Saxon
gptkbp:compatibleWith gptkb:Old_High_German
Gothic
gptkbp:example Old English 'fīf' from Proto-Germanic '*fimf' (five)
Old English 'ūs' from Proto-Germanic '*uns' (us)
gptkbp:feature compensatory lengthening of preceding vowel
loss of nasal consonant before fricative
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law
gptkbp:namedAfter gptkb:Ingvaeonic_languages
gptkbp:period early Germanic
gptkbp:relatedTo Germanic sound shifts
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Anglo-Frisian
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5