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sound shift

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Likely a calque of German Lautverschiebung.

noun sound shifts

  1. countable, uncountable 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.

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DeutschLautverschiebung

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"sound shift." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sound%20shift. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{sound_shift_2026,
  title = {sound shift},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sound%20shift},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}