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...

(Ingvaeonic A). Linguistic evidence for Ingvaeonic B observed in Old Frisian, Old English and Old Saxon is as follows: The so-called Ingvaeonic nasal spirant...

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...

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...

split into early Old English and early Old Frisian. Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law: Loss of nasals before fricatives, with nasalization and compensatory...

Gothic) Great Vowel Shift (English) High German consonant shift Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law (attested in Old English, Old Frisian and Old Saxon) West Germanic...

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

are only partially preserved in Low German, for instance the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law (some dialects have us, os for "us" whereas others have uns,...

Lombardic) into Old High German. At more or less the same time the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law, moving over Western Europe from west to east, led to the development...

inherited, but were joined by new nasal vowels resulting from the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law, which extended the loss of nasal consonants (only before -h-...

certain coda positions several centuries earlier (the so-called Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law), but there were many exceptions and restorations through analogy:...

to early Old English was *[ans-ika-] => *[oːs-ika-] (by the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law) => [øːs-ika-] (by i-mutation) => [øːsk] (by high vowel loss...

occurrence of the Ingvaeonic nasal-spirant law. Seen in some place names, such as -mude ("mouth") where more southwestern areas retain the nasal: -monde. Use...

) Both the Germanic spirant law and the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law show vowel lengthening compensating for the loss of a nasal. Non-rhotic forms of...

Exeter Book Go (verb) History of the Scots language I-mutation Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law List of generic forms in place names in the United Kingdom and...

Ingvaeonic), as well as Dutch, but not High German: The so-called Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law, with loss of /n/ before voiceless fricatives: e.g. *munþ, *gans...

Leben). These words have been excluded from the list. See also: Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law Since the Norman conquest of 1066 many Latinate words entered...

Anglo-Frisian (Old Frisian, Old English), partially participating in the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law. The Middle Low German language is an ancestor of the modern...

(to a lesser degree) Old Saxon share the application of the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law. Old Dutch was considerably less affected than those other three...

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