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

characteristics are also found in Dutch, which did not generally undergo the nasal spirant law (except for a few words), retained the three distinct plural endings...

Germanic languages due to several sound changes: besides the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law, which is present in Low German as well, Anglo-Frisian brightening...

partially shares Anglo-Frisian's (Old Frisian, Old English) Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law which sets it apart from Low Franconian and Irminonic languages...

spelling and pronunciation Grimm's law High German consonant shift History of English Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law Phonological history of English vowels...

five, mouth, us versus German fünf, Mund, uns. For detail see Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law. The Anglo-Frisian languages underwent a sound change in their...

"us") in colloquial French (first-person plural pronoun, see Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law), from Old French (h)om, a reduced form of homme "man", was a...

The West Germanic branch is classically subdivided into three branches: Ingvaeonic, which includes English and the Frisian languages; Istvaeonic, which encompasses...

Germanic and *ddj in East Germanic, *ww becomes *ggw in both. Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law (Ingvaeonic languages) When followed by a fricative, /n/ is lost and...

suppression of the Germanic nasal in a word like us (ús), soft (sêft) or goose (goes): see Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law. Also, when followed by some...