consonant shift
noun
: a set of regular changes in consonant articulation in the history of a language or dialect:
a
: such a set affecting the Indo-European stops (see stop entry 2 sense 9) and distinguishing the Germanic languages from the other Indo-European languages compare grimm's law
b
: such a set affecting the Germanic stops and distinguishing High German from the other Germanic languages
Word History
First Known Use
1888, in the meaning defined above
- free air
- free alms
- free alongside ship
- free and clear
- free and common socage
- free and easy
- free as a bird
- free association
- free astray
- free ball
- free balloon
- free bank
- Free Baptist
- free beach
- free bench
- free boring
- free capital
- free cell formation
- free central
- free chant
- free chapel
- free charge
- free church
- free churchman
- free city