[d]→[w]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 3/5
Voiced alveolar plosive to Voiced labio-velar approximant
The phonetic transformation of the voiced alveolar plosive /d/ into the voiced labio-velar approximant /w/ is a documented sound change, primarily observed as a form of lenition. This process involves a weakening of the consonant, often occurring in specific phonetic environments such as intervocalically. The shift entails a change in both manner of articulation, from a complete stop to an approximant, and a significant shift in the place of articulation, from alveolar to labio-velar.
Phonetic Effects
Lenition, Debuccalization, Place Assimilation, Vocalization
Language Examples
sĕdēre→seure— From Latin sĕdēre to Catalan seure ('to sit').
crĕdēre→creure— From Latin crĕdēre to Catalan creure ('to believe').
radĕre→raure— From Latin radĕre to Catalan raure ('to shave').
daar→waar— Historical shift from the d-relativizer 'daar' ('there') to the w-relativizer 'waar' ('where').
dat→wat— Ongoing shift from the d-relativizer 'dat' ('that') to the w-relativizer 'wat' ('what').
[-d-]→[-w-]— Intervocalic /d/ can change to /w/ as a dialectal variation.
Related Transformations
More Romance Shifts
Sources & References
- What are some of the most unusual examples of historical phoneme changes occurring in languages (extant or extinct)? - Quora
- a new multi-genre corpus of Early and Late Modern Dutch - Scholarly Publications Leiden University
- Lenition - Wikipedia
- Constructions all the way everywhere: Four new directions in constructionist research - Biblio
- Cross-dialectal diversity in Mukrī Kurdish I: Phonological and phonetic variation | Journal of Linguistic Geography - Cambridge University Press & Assessment
- Relative <i>wo</i> in Alemannic: only a complementizer? - Institut für Linguistik
- dat" or "alles wat"? : r/learndutch - Reddit
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