Lautverschiebung

German

Etymology

From Laut (“sound, noise, tone, utterance”) and verschieben (“push to another spot, shift”).

Noun

Lautverschiebung f (genitive Lautverschiebung, plural Lautverschiebungen)

  1. A sound shift, a regular process affecting a sound of a language, changing it into another sound.
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