Verner's law

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Verner's law describes a historical sound change in the Proto-Germanic language whereby consonants that would have otherwise been the voiceless fricatives *f, *þ, *s, *h, *hʷ, when present following an unstressed syllable, evolved into the voiced fricatives *β, *ð, *z, *ɣ, *ɣʷ.

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