[r]→[e]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 3/5

Alveolar trill to Close-mid front unrounded vowel

The shift from the rhotic consonant [r] to the mid-front vowel [e] is a specific regional variant of r-vocalization. While vocalization typically results in central or back vowels, in certain Central Germanic dialects, the rhotic quality is replaced by a fronted vocalic off-glide, particularly after other front vowels.

Phonetic Effects

Vocalization, Diphthongization, Lenition

Language Examples

Austro-Bavarian German Germanic

hier [r]→[hiːe] / [hiə]— Final r vocalizes into a fronted vowel quality.

sehr→[seːe]

Related Transformations

Reverse

More Germanic Shifts

[a] → [ã] — Assimilatory Nasalization [a] → [∅] — Elision [a] → [ʔ] — Glottalization [a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction [ʕ] → [a] — Vocalization

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