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Sound shift

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    a regular sound change, especially when several phonemes are synchronously affected in analogous ways, and/or when there are several interlinked phases

    "The Great Vowel Shift was the main sound shift shaping modern English."

Etymology

Likely a calque of German Lautverschiebung.

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