[d]→[ɖ]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 2/5
Voiced alveolar plosive to Voiced retroflex stop
Retroflexion of the dental voiced stop [d] to [ɖ]. A famous example in Indo-Aryan history is the development of PIE *nis-dos 'nest' into Sanskrit 'nīḍa'.
Phonetic Effects
Retroflexion
Language Examples
*nis-dos→nīḍa— Historical retroflexion and compensatory lengthening.
Related Transformations
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