[ð]→[i]Certainty: 4/5Commonality: 2/5

Voiced dental fricative to Close front unrounded vowel

The shift from the voiced dental fricative [ð] to the high-front vowel [i] (or palatal glide [j]) is a form of vocalization. It occurs in specific phonetic environments where the weak fricative loses its dental contact and consolidates into a palatal resonance, typically after front vowels.

Phonetic Effects

Vocalization, Lenition, Diphthongization

Language Examples

Danish (Casual Speech) Germanic

mad [ð̠] (food)→[mæi̯]— Vocalization of the 'soft d' into a palatal glide/vowel quality in informal registers.

Cockney English (Sporadic) Germanic

with [ð]→[wɪi̯]— Sporadic reduction where the final dental fricative is absorbed into a vowel-like glide.

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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