14-02-2026, 12:19 PM
(03-01-2026, 08:12 PM)ErinaBee wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.what is "sound shift (d/t)"? any evidence?
This is so extremely frequent in MHG dialects, you find it in a majority of MSS from the Southern regions. It's part of the High German consonant shift. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
"the pre-Old High German voiced stop consonants /d/, /b/, and /ɡ/ (from Proto-West Germanic /ð/, /β/, and /ɣ/) devoice to the voiceless stop consonants /t/, /p/, and /k/ (Medienverschiebung).[1]"

