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单词 second fronting
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second fronting
second fronting n. [translating German zweite Aufhellung (K. Luick Historische Grammatik der englischen Sprache (1914) 164)] Philology a sound-change in varieties of Old English by which the vowels æ (produced by an earlier fronting) and a became e and æ respectively.
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1939 PMLA 54 19 The second raising and fronting of West Germanic a, which changed dæg to deg and dagas to dægas, must..have occurred, not during the fifth century, but during the eighth and early ninth.
1959 A. Campbell Old Eng. Gram. v. 64 Second fronting is not a general Merc[ian] change, for it is practically absent in Ru.1, and ME sources show that it was limited to a small part of the vast Midland area.
1972 E. J. Dobson Eng. Text Ancrene Riwle p. lxxvi The normal Mercian ĕ produced by indirect i-mutation followed by second fronting.
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