West Germanic gemination was a sound change that took place in all West Germanic languages around the 3rd or 4th century AD. It affected consonants directly...

released before the articulation of the second /t/. Syntactic gemination West Germanic gemination Glottal stop Length (phonetics) Vowel length Syllabic consonant...

this change must have occurred after the loss of word-final /z/. West Germanic gemination: lengthening of all consonants except /r/ before /j/.; this change...

rule continued to apply at least into the early West Germanic languages, since the West Germanic gemination produced geminated plosives from earlier voiced...

causes umlaut in the present where possible. In West Germanic, it also causes the West Germanic gemination. The forms of class 7 were very different and...

West Germanic gemination Germanic languages Germanic substrate hypothesis This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Germanic sound...

disappeared in most verbs in old Germanic languages other than Gothic and Old Saxon. (It also resulted in West Germanic gemination in some verbs, and palatalization...

vowel in languages other than Gothic. The -j- caused West Germanic gemination in the West Germanic languages in short-stem verbs ending in a consonant...

consonant differences have an unrelated origin, being a result of the West Germanic gemination and a subsequent process of levelling. This shift also is only...

word-finally). West Germanic gemination of consonants, except r, before /j/. This only occurred in short-stemmed words due to Sievers' law. Gemination of /p/...