It did not generally undergo the nasal spirant law ( except for a few words ), it kept the three plural endings distinct and it did not have the "-s " plural.
22.
The Anglo-Frisian nasal spirant law and Anglo-Frisian brightening resulted in certain early Germanic languages evolving into what are now English and Frisian, while the Second Germanic sound shift resulted in what would become German.
23.
Rix postulates several syllabic consonants, namely and palatal as well as a labiovelar spirant and some scholars such as Mauro Cristofani also view the aspirates as palatal rather than aspirated but these views are not shared by most Etruscologists.
24.
The usage of two other terms is less standardized : " "'Spirant "'" can be a synonym of " fricative ", or ( as in e . g . uvular fricatives in the class.
25.
The Germanic spirant law may have been formed as part of Grimm's law long before written records began, but it ceased to operate shortly after the Germanic languages began to break up, around the middle of the first millennium.
26.
The consonant weak verbs which typically goes along with the " " phenomenon ( " think : thought ", German " denken : dachte " ) is a result of a later development in Germanic known as the Germanic spirant law.
27.
The prenasalized voiced spirants ??, ?? and ?? were still plosives by this time, causing a merger between ?? / ??, ?? / ?? and ?? / ??, which would remain except within educated varieties, where spelling pronunciations did make for segments such as
28.
This is evidenced both by the Tiberian vocalization's consistent use of word-initial spirants after a vowel in sandhi, as well as Rabbi Saadia Gaon's attestation to the use of this alternation in Tiberian Aramaic at the beginning of the 10th century CE.
29.
Unlike Grimm's law in general, however, the Germanic spirant law continued to operate for some time, acting as a surface filter that eliminated any sequences of a stop followed by " t " as they arose either through borrowing or native word formation.
30.
This begins the list of characters with the initial vowels ( starting with " a " ), then lists a subset of the consonants in 5 phonetically-related groups of 5 called " vargas ", and ends with 4 liquids, 3 sibilants, and a spirant.
