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[o]→[ɛ]Certainty: 4/5Commonality: 3/5

Umlaut Germanic

Close-mid back rounded vowel to Open-mid front unrounded vowel

The shift from [o] to [ɛ] is a variant of the i-umlaut process where a back vowel is fronted and lowered, often in short-vowel contexts.

Phonetic Effects

I-Umlaut, Fronting, Lowering

Language Examples

German Germanic

Gott→göttlich [œ]— The short 'o' fronts to an open-mid front rounded vowel [œ], which often alternates with [ɛ] in dialects.

Related Transformations

Reverse Related: Long vowel umlaut

More Germanic Shifts

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

Sources & References

Waterman: A History of the German Language

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