CONSONANT SHIFT


Meaning of CONSONANT SHIFT in English

noun Date: 1888 a set of regular changes in consonant articulation in the history of a language or dialect:, such a set affecting the Indo-European stops and distinguishing the Germanic languages from the other Indo-European languages, such a set affecting the Germanic stops and distinguishing High German from the other Germanic languages

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