English Explanatory Dictionary

sound shift

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. a regular sound change, especially when several phonemes are synchronously affected in analogous ways, and/or when there are several interlinked phases

Word forms

sound shift sound shifts

Etymology

Likely a calque of German Lautverschiebung.

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