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• Phonological history of English vowels — In the history of English phonology, there were many diachronic sound changes affecting vowels, especially involving phonemic splits and mergers. Contents 1 Great Vowel Shift and Trisyllabic laxing 2 Tense–lax neutralization 3 Monophthon …   Wikipedia

• Phonological history of English low back vowels — The phonology of the low back vowels of the English language has undergone changes both overall and with regional variations, dating from Late Middle English (c. 1400) to the present. The sound changes heard in modern English mostly begin with… …   Wikipedia

• English-language vowel changes before historic r — In the phonological history of the English language, vowels followed (or formerly followed) by the phoneme /r/ have undergone a number of phonological changes. In recent centuries, most or all of these changes have involved merging of vowel… …   Wikipedia

• English-language vowel changes before historic l — In the history of English phonology, there have been many diachronic sound changes affecting vowels, especially involving phonemic splits and mergers. A number of these changes are specific to vowels which occur before /l/. Contents 1… …   Wikipedia

• Phonological history of English high front vowels — The high front vowels of English have undergone a variety of changes over time, which may vary from dialect to dialect. Contents 1 Weak vowel merger 2 Kit–bit split 3 Pin–pen merger …   Wikipedia

• Phonological history of English high back vowels — Most dialects of modern English have two high back vowels: the close back rounded vowel /u/ found in words like goose, and the near close near back rounded vowel /ʊ/ found in words like foot. This article discusses the history of these vowels in… …   Wikipedia

• i before e — The traditional spelling rule ‘i before e except after c’ should be extended to include the statement ‘when the combination is pronounced ee ’, as in believe, brief, fiend, hygiene, priest, siege, and in ceiling, deceive, conceit, receipt,… …   Modern English usage

• u̯edh-2, u̯ed- before nasal —     u̯edh 2, u̯ed before nasal     English meaning: to lead     Deutsche Übersetzung: “fũhren; heimfũhren, heiraten (vom Manne)”     Material: O.Ind. vadhū f. “bride, young wife, woman”, Av. vaδū ds., vüδayeiti (Kaus.) “leads, zieht”, with upa …   Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary

• into — before vowels; strong / Intu:/ preposition 1 INSIDE CONTAINER, PLACE, AREA in order to be inside something or to be in a place or area: I saw Jim this morning; he was going into the paper shop. | Sue got back into bed and pulled the quilt over… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• Romance languages — Romance Geographic distribution: Originally Southern Europe and parts of Africa; now also Latin America, Canada, parts of Lebanon and much of Western Africa Linguistic classification: Indo European Italic …   Wikipedia

• Proto-Germanic language — Proto Germanic Spoken in Northern Europe Extinct evolved into Proto Norse, Gothic, Frankish and Ingvaeonic by the 4th century Language family Indo European …   Wikipedia