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[ou]→[au]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 4/5

Lowering Germanic

Diphthong ou to Diphthong au

The shift from [ou] to [au] is a parallel process to [ei] > [ai], involving the lowering of the back rounded nucleus of the diphthong.

Phonetic Effects

Lowering of the Nucleus

Language Examples

Polder Dutch Germanic

huis [ou]→huis [au]— Lowering of the diphthong nucleus in contemporary Dutch dialects.

Related Transformations

Reverse Lowering chain

More Germanic Shifts

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

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