Back to Matrix [e] → [ou] Edit this Data

[ou]→[e]Certainty: 2/5Commonality: 1/5

Monophthongization Unrounding Fronting Germanic

Diphthong ou to Close-mid front unrounded vowel

Monophthongization of diphthong [ou] to close-mid front unrounded vowel [e] through vowel merger with unrounding and fronting.

Phonetic Effects

Monophthongization, Unrounding, Fronting

Language Examples

German (rapid speech) Germanic

[ou]→[e]— Reduction in casual articulation.

Dutch (dialectal) Germanic

[ou]→[e]— Regional vowel shift.

English (informal) Germanic

[ou]→[e]— Colloquial vowel reduction.

Related Transformations

More Germanic Shifts

[a] → [ã] — Assimilatory Nasalization [a] → [∅] — Elision [a] → [ʔ] — Glottalization [a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction [ai] → [e] — Monophthongization

Sources & References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel_reduction

Spotted a mistake or have a better example?

EchoDrift is community-driven. You can suggest a change directly through GitHub.

Propose an Edit on GitHub