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Perhaps worth mentioning is /n/ > /ð/ before /r/ in Sindarin, as in Caradhras . If it was good enough for JRRT... Considering Tolkien's background I expect this was inspired by Old Norse, e.g. Proto-Germanic *mannz "person" > *mannR > Old Norse maðr > Icelandic maður [maːðʏɾ̥] (where R is...

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Does anybody know of any languages which typically use different conceptual metaphors for describing power and heirarchies than vertical position? More generally, any interesting resources you've come across which compare particular conceptual metaphors over a diverse selection of languages? Most ar...

Linguoboy has already explained what Umlaut usually refers to in the context of Czech, but just to add a few examples. One place you can see the shift well is in feminine nouns originally ending in -a, with accusative in -u. In Czech this class has split into two paradigms, depending on the precedin...