consonant shift
nounLinguistics.
a set of changes that take place in the articulation of one or more consonant phonemes between an earlier and a later stage of a language.
Origin of consonant shift
1First recorded in 1885–90
- Compare first consonant shift, second consonant shift.
Words Nearby consonant shift
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