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PRONUNCIATION OF CONSONANT SHIFT

consonant shift  [ˈkɒnsənənt ʃɪft] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONSONANT SHIFT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Consonant shift is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CONSONANT SHIFT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of consonant shift in the English dictionary

The definition of consonant shift in the dictionary is a change, or a set of connected changes, in the articulation of consonants in any language or family of languages.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CONSONANT SHIFT


blueshift
ˈbluːˌʃɪft
downshift
ˈdaʊnˌʃɪft
frameshift
ˈfreɪmˌʃɪft
gearshift
ˈɡɪəʃɪft
kerchiefed
ˈkɜːtʃɪft
loanshift
ˈləʊnˌʃɪft
makeshift
ˈmeɪkˌʃɪft
manshift
ˈmænˌʃɪft
rankshift
ˈræŋkˌʃɪft
redshift
ˈredˌʃɪft
shift
ʃɪft
unshift
ʌnˈʃɪft
upshift
ʌpˈʃɪft

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONSONANT SHIFT

consolidator
consoling
consolingly
consols
consolute
consonance
consonancies
consonancy
consonant
consonant cluster
consonantal
consonantal alliteration
consonantally
consonantly
consonous
consort
consortable
consorter
consortia
consortial

WORDS THAT END LIKE CONSONANT SHIFT

back shift
day shift
Doppler shift
Einstein shift
function shift
graveyard shift
Great Vowel Shift
Lamb shift
night shift
paradigm shift
scene shift
sound shift
split shift
stick shift
swing shift
vowel shift
whift

Synonyms and antonyms of consonant shift in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «consonant shift» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONSONANT SHIFT

Find out the translation of consonant shift to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of consonant shift from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «consonant shift» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

辅音转变
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cambio de acuerdo
570 millions of speakers

English

consonant shift
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

व्यंजन पारी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التحول ساكن
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

согласный сдвиг
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mudança consonantal
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ব্যঞ্জনবর্ণ স্থানান্তর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mutation consonantique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Peralihan konsonan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Lautverschiebung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

子音推移
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

자음 변화
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Shift konsonan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thay đổi phụ âm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மெய் மாற்ற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

व्यंजन शिफ्ट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ünsüz değişimi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

spostamento consonante
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

spółgłoska zmiana
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

приголосний зрушення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

schimbare consonant
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σύμφωνο μετατόπιση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

konsonant verskuiwing
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

konsonant skift
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

konsonant shift
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of consonant shift

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONSONANT SHIFT»

The term «consonant shift» is used very little and occupies the 190.688 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CONSONANT SHIFT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «consonant shift» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «consonant shift» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about consonant shift

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONSONANT SHIFT»

Discover the use of consonant shift in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to consonant shift and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The German Consonant Shift: The Basis for the Development of ...
For instance, although the German language was also affected by Grimm’s Law as it is the most famous sound law in the history of linguistics, they reason why the German language, especially High German, differs so much from Low German and ...
Annemarie Wendicke, 2009
2
The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic
The High German consonant shift operated approximately between the fifth centuries and the eighth centuries.151 On the basis of research of names and toponyms, it has been supposed that the consonant shift started with the fricativization of ...
Saskia Pronk-Tiethoff, 2013
3
Linguistic Reconstruction and Typology
existence of the "First consonant shift" in Germanic. Meid fails to understand that external linguistic facts such as lexical loans in a language cannot give us any evidence, either in favour of or against, the existence of a phonetic process in the  ...
Jacek Fisiak, 1997
4
Language Anxiety : Conflict and Change in the History of ...
Further support emerges from the strikingly parallel set of Primitive Germanic phonological phenomena collectively known as the First Consonant Shift. Like the Great Vowel Shift, the First Consonant Shift describes a series of changes ( these ...
Tim William Machan, 2009
5
Language Change and Language Structure: Older Germanic ...
This is the basic thought of what I have called the bifurcation theory {'“v'erz. weigungstheorie“, 1'iennemann 1934, 1985}: the divergent development, named the Intra-Germanic Consonant Shift, of the Proto-Germanic tcnucs into affricatcs, for t' ...
Toril Swan, Endre Mørck, Olaf Jansen, 1994
6
Old English and its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the ...
In fact,it is importantwhen talking about the consonant shift to distinguish between two major groups of p's, t's, and k's. Group I consists of those voiceless stopsthat appearafter vowels; GroupIIcomprises those voiceless stops thatappearin initial ...
Orrin W. Robinson, 2003
7
Phonological Evidence from the Continental Runic Inscriptions
Of the cases under consideration, only Wurmlingen dorih is accepted by the runological community at large; and even this is rejected by Schwerdt (2000:220 –221) as a case of “pseudo-Consonant Shift” (§ 7.1.3.2.1). She concedes that Stetten ...
Martin Findell, 2012
8
English Phonetics and Phonology for Spanish Speakers + CD ...
15.3.3. The High German Consonant Shift If Grimm's Law separates the Germanic languages from the others in the IndoEuropean family, then the High German Consonant Shift, sometimes referred to as the Second Germanic Consonant Shift ...
Brian Leonard Mott, 2011
9
The History of English
All of the Germanic languages exhibit this change, called a “consonant shift” (a consonant in the parent language, Indo-European, shifts, or changes to a new consonant in the daughter language, Germanic in this case). The table below shows ...
Scott Shay, 2008
10
A Lateral Theory of Phonology: What is CVCV, and why Should ...
1 The behaviour of Common Germanic stops in internal Codas may not be controlled (the column remains empty) because all items in this position have been affected by the First Consonant Shift (Grimm's Law), thus lat captus, noctis, rectos ...
Tobias Scheer, 2004

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONSONANT SHIFT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term consonant shift is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Monthly gleanings for January 2015
It was the so-called German Consonant Shift that drove a wedge between German and the other Germanic languages. Engl. tide and German ... «OUPblog, Jan 15»
2
Kissing from a strictly etymological point of view
In Latin, g was lost, and in Germanic it yielded k, according to the law of the consonant shift (b, d, g to p, t, k). Did the ancestors of Latin speakers ... «OUPblog, Sep 14»
3
Monthly gleanings for January 2014
It is enough to look at the map of any important sound change (for instance, the German Consonant Shift or the voicing of initial f- and s- in ... «OUPblog, Jan 14»
4
Monthly Gleanings, Part 1: October 2011
Where the “Teutons” lived before the First Consonant Shift and who they were is likely to remain a matter of debate for quite some time in the ... «OUPblog, Nov 11»
5
The oddest English spellings, part 17: The letter H
Germanic experienced a change known as the First Consonant Shift (a big shock, as the capitalization above shows). When we compare Latin ... «OUPblog, May 11»
6
Guilt Societies and Shame Societies
... is the so-called First Consonant Shift: compare Latin pater, tres, and quod (that is, kwod) versus Engl. father, three, and what (from hw-). «OUPblog, Sep 08»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Consonant shift [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/consonant-shift>. Apr 2024 ».
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