Verner's Law

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Verner's law, stated by Karl Verner in 1875, describes a historical sound change in the Proto-Germanic language whereby voiceless fricatives *f, *þ, *s, *h (including *h¿ ), when immediately following an unstressed syllable in the same word, underwent voicing and became respectively the fricatives *b, *d, *z, *g (and *g¿). (In Proto-Germanic, voiced fricatives /v ð ¿/ were allophones of their corresponding voiced plosives /b d ¿/ when they occurred between vowels, semivowels and liquids, so we write them here as *b, *d, *g. But the situations where Verner's law applied resulted in fricatives in these very circumstances, so we understand these phonemes as fricatives in this context.)

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