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Noun Concept
Categories: Linguistic morphology, Sound laws, Romance languages, Indo-European linguistics, Language histories
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metaphony  metaphony in Romance languages
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In the Romance languages, metaphony was an early vowel mutation process that operated in all Romance languages to varying degrees, raising certain stressed vowels in words with a final /i/ or /u/ or a directly following /j/. Wikipedia
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In the Romance languages, metaphony was an early vowel mutation process that operated in all Romance languages to varying degrees, raising certain stressed vowels in words with a final /i/ or /u/ or a directly following /j/. Wikipedia
Vowel mutation that operated in Romance languages, raising or diphthongizing stressed vowels in words with a final /i/ or /u/ or a directly following /j/: e.g. La. fēcīt > Spa. hice; La. equam "mare" > Rom. iapă Rom. iapă" data-audio-language="EN"> Wikidata
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metaphony (Romance languages)
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metaphony in Romance languages

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