[ð]→[θ]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 4/5

Voiced dental fricative to Voiceless dental fricative

The shift from the voiced dental fricative [ð] to its voiceless counterpart [θ] is a typical case of final devoicing or assimilation to adjacent voiceless sounds.

Phonetic Effects

Devoicing, Assimilation

Language Examples

English Germanic

with [wɪð]→[wɪθ]— Common variation in Northern British English and rapid speech before voiceless sounds.

Germanic (Historical) Germanic

bathe [beɪð]→bath [bæθ]— Historical noun-verb pairs showing the effect of final devoicing on the noun form.

Related Transformations

Voicing

More Germanic Shifts

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

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