[ɛ]→[∅]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 5/5
Open-mid front unrounded vowel to Empty sound / Zero
The elision of [ɛ] is a standard historical process of vowel loss, particularly in unstressed suffixes and case endings. Over time, the vowel reduces to a schwa before disappearing entirely.
Phonetic Effects
Elision, Apocope, Syncope
Language Examples
sune [ɛ]→son [∅]— Loss of the dative singular case ending.
temede→tamed— Syncope of medial vowels.
Related Transformations
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