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| Mar 10, 2018 at 5:20 | comment | added | herisson | I thought palatalization of velars was reconstructed as a pre–, not post–Old English sound change. What I remembar reading is that the reflexes of Proto-Germanic velars in palatalizing contexts were written with g and c in Old English, but pronounced as [j], [tʃ] (or when geminated, written cg or gg and cc and pronounced as [dːʒ], [tːʃ]). | |
| Nov 7, 2011 at 21:54 | history | edited | Daniel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 11, 2011 at 23:08 | vote | accept | Daniel | ||
| Sep 8, 2011 at 0:34 | history | answered | z7sg Ѫ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |