/ / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The Germanic spirant law, or Primärberührung, is a specific historical instance in linguistics...

linguistics, the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law (also called the Anglo-Frisian or North Sea Germanic nasal spirant law) is a description of a phonological...

phonotactic restriction known as the Germanic spirant law. This rule remained productive throughout the Proto-Germanic period. The cluster *tt became *ss...

English and Old Saxon is as follows: The so-called Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law: converted *munþ "mouth" into *mų̄þ (compare Old English mūþ). Loss of...

undergo Grimm's law after a fricative (such as s) or after other plosives (which were shifted to fricatives by the Germanic spirant law); for example,...

Proto-Germanic itself, and in various Germanic subfamilies and languages. Germanic spirant law Grimm's law Holtzmann's law Sievers' law Verner's law Kluge's...

The West Germanic languages constitute the largest of the three branches of the Germanic family of languages (the others being the North Germanic and the...

and Low German, but not High German: The so-called Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law, with loss of /n/ before voiceless fricatives: e.g. *munþ, *gans > Old...

Armenian and Greek. Germanic spirant law: *p, *t, *k, *kʷ remain stops when preceded by another stop or *s. After r, u, k, i (Ruki sound law). Between vowels...

triggered assimilation of the preceding consonant according to the Germanic spirant law: bt, pt > ft dt, tt, þt > st gt, kt, hwt > ht Strong verbs had four...