Sentence examples for consonant shift from inspiring English sources

Because these borrowings were made after the consonant shift, they do not show its effects.

For one thing, "the great consonant shift" (formulated by Jakob Grimm in 1822) was then undreamed of.

Then, probably during the 6th century, there occurred a change customarily called the High German consonant shift.

The consonant shift in Proto-Armenian had some similarities to the Proto-Germanic shift (see Grimm's law), although these processes were independent of one another.

The modern German forms of these loans show that they were borrowed before the consonant shift, since they show its effects.

Only after the consonant shift is there justification in speaking of a "(High) German" language distinct from the rest of South Germanic.

Grimm described two consonant shifts involving essentially nine consonants.

This reveals consonant shifts in Armenian dialects that, all told, represent as many as seven types of development of the Old Armenian plosive system.

There followed a short excursion into the Brothers Grimm (as linguists rather than authors of fairy tales); a diagram showing consonant shifts branching off a Common Indo-European root; a debate about sign language and whether it was a language at all with national distinctions (answer: Yes), and the merest flick of a sequence marvelling at the skill of a simultaneous interpreter.

Before other consonants, it shifts towards the vowel in hem, set, and bed.

Carbon atoms of the benzene ring of coumarin nucleus showed downfield or upfield shifts in consonant with the type of substituent present on the ring.