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    manner than simple consonants, indicating that West Germanic gemination predated it; the gemination is usually dated to the 5th century CE. Additionally, Latin...
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  • arise almost solely by gemination as a morphological process; there are few, if any, long consonants in word roots. Gemination is especially prominent...
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  • Amharic (section Gemination)
    major operating systems. As in most other Ethiopian Semitic languages, gemination is contrastive in Amharic. That is, consonant length can distinguish words...
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    preceding short vowel, as they do in Modern German, but true consonant gemination. Double consonants found in Old High German include pp, bb, tt, dd, ck...
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  • they fall into three "conjugations" differing in their vowels and in gemination of the imperfect, illustrated for a three-consonant verb: säbbäro, imperfect...
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    reduplication and gemination (which often overlap in meaning) to derive nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs throughout the AA language family. Gemination in particular...
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    change must have occurred after the loss of word-final /z/. West Germanic gemination: lengthening of all consonants except /r/ before /j/.; this change must...
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  • 'arts-ekha) "your earth". The definite article is a- or e-, and causes gemination of the following consonant, unless it is a guttural; it is written with...
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  • pointed out that "expressive gemination" does not explain why so many of these nouns are n-stems. Moreover, expressive gemination cannot explain the many cases...
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  • (2016). "Umlaut". In Glück, Helmut; Rödel, Michael (eds.). Metzler Lexikon Sprache (in German) (5th ed.). Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag. p. 733. ISBN 978-3-476-02641-5...
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    forms may co-exist, e.g. brennen vs. (metathesised) bernen (to burn). Gemination: In MLG, geminate consonants, which came into being by assimilation or...
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  • [citation needed] /r/ can be heard as either a flap [ɾ] or a trill [r]. Gemination can occur in most consonants word-medially, except for /r, z, h, ʔ/. Ethiopia...
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  • languages other than Gothic and Old Saxon. (It also resulted in West Germanic gemination in some verbs, and palatalization of velar consonants in Old English.)...
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  • Von Sprache und Gesellschaft (2 ed.). Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110184181. Armosti, Spyros (11–14 June 2009). "The perception of plosive gemination in...
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    some daughter languages as doubled letters. This phenomenon is termed gemination. Kraehenmann says: "Then, Proto-Germanic already had long consonants …...
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  • are: Initial mutations, including lenition, nasalisation and aspiration/gemination. A complex system of verbal allomorphy.[self-published source] A system...
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    German that cause words spelled with ⟨ß⟩ or ⟨ss⟩ to be pronounced with gemination.: 221–22  The Education Council of Zürich had decided to stop teaching...
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  • In such cases, the terms fortis is sometimes used for aspiration or gemination, whereas lenis is used for single, tenuous, or voiced plosives. However...
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  • 2022-04-21. Kluge, Friedrich (1963). Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (19 ed.). Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 3. ISBN 9783111698847. Kuryłowicz...
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    consonant -z (attested from the late 3rd century), and by the j-consonant gemination (attested from ca. 400 BCE); early inscriptions from the West Germanic...
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  • ISBN 978-0-8156-3072-2. Mensching, G. (1992). Einführung in die Sardische Sprache, Romanistischer Verlag, Bonn Oftedal, M. (1956) The Gaelic of Leurbost...
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    West Germanic gemination of consonants, except r, before /j/. This only occurred in short-stemmed words due to Sievers' law. Gemination of /p/, /t/, /k/...
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  • Press. Luick, Karl. (1914–1940). Historische Grammatik der englischen Sprache. Stuttgart: Bernhard Tauchnitz. Maling, J (1971). "Sentence stress in Old...
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    (May 1906). "Schmalz-Krebs' Antibarbarus - Antibarbarus der Lateinischen Sprache. Siebente genau durchgesehene und vielfach umgearbeite Auflage von J. H...
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    around the city of Shmun and shares South Fayyumic features like vowel gemination and absence of lambdacism.[citation needed] Oxyrhynchite (also known as...
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  • Liddell & Scott 1940, s.v. "λάβδα" Newton, B. E. (1968). "Spontaneous gemination in Cypriot Greek". Lingua. 20: 15–57. doi:10.1016/0024-3841(68)90130-7...
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    /qʼ/, and /qʰ/), they are rendered more like [ɑ, ɛ, ɔ], respectively. Gemination of the tap /ɾ/ results in a trill [r]. Voiceless bilabial plosives Pronunciation...
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    attempted to find more clues in texts written phonetically by assuming that geminations, plene spellings and unexpected "stronger" consonant qualities were clues...
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    Irish inscriptions: A loss of /n/ before /t/ and /k/, resulting in the gemination of the following sound: *nt, *nk > tː, kː Loss of intervocalic *s: /s/...
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  • (help) El-Farnawany, Refaat (1980). Ägyptisch-Arabisch als geschriebene Sprache: Probleme der Verschriftung einer Umgangssprache [Egyptian Arabic as a...
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