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[ai]→[ei]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 4/5

Raising GVS Germanic Vowel Shift

Diphthong ai to Diphthong ei

The raising of the nucleus in the diphthong 'ai' often leads to the development of 'ei', frequently as part of larger vowel raising shifts.

Phonetic Effects

Raising

Language Examples

English (Great Vowel Shift) Germanic

name [a:]→name [ei]— As part of the Great Vowel Shift, long [a:] raised to [e:] and later diphthongized into [ei].

Related Transformations

Reverse pre-diphthongization

More Raising Shifts

[ã] → [õ] — Raising [a] → [ã] — Assimilatory Nasalization [a] → [∅] — Elision [a] → [ʔ] — Glottalization [a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction

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