Lautverschiebung

German

Etymology

From Laut (“sound, noise, tone, utterance”) and verschieben (“push to another spot, shift”) and -ung, or Laut +‎ Verschiebung

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Noun

Lautverschiebung f (genitive Lautverschiebung, plural Lautverschiebungen)

  1. (linguistics) A sound shift, a regular process affecting a sound of a language, changing it into another sound.

Derived terms
  • erste Lautverschiebung, erste germanische Lautverschiebung (both also capitalised)
  • zweite Lautverschiebung, zweite germanische Lautverschiebung, hochdeutsche Lautverschiebung (all also capitalised)
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