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sound shift

sound shift noun: a regular sound change, especially when several phonemes are synchronously affected in analogous ways, and/or when there are several interlinked phases.

Noun

sound shift (countable and uncountable, plural sound shifts)

  1. a regular sound change, especially when several phonemes are synchronously affected in analogous ways, and/or when there are several interlinked phases
    • The Great Vowel Shift was the main sound shift shaping modern English.

sound shift meaning in Tamil

sound shift in Tamil

ஒலி நிலைமாற்றம்

Forms of sound shift

pluralsound shifts

Origin of sound shift

Likely a calque of German Lautverschiebung.

Questions about sound shift

What does sound shift mean?
Sound shift means a regular sound change, especially when several phonemes are synchronously affected in analogous ways, and/or when there are several interlinked phases.
What is sound shift in Tamil?
Sound shift in Tamil is ஒலி நிலைமாற்றம். See Sound shift meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sound shift?
Sound shift is a noun.
What is the plural of sound shift?
The plural of sound shift is sound shifts.

Words near sound shift in the dictionary

  1. sound post
  2. sound posts
  3. sound recording
  4. sound shadow
  5. sound shadows
  6. sound shift
  7. sound shifts
  8. sound stage
  9. sound stages
  10. sound symbolism
  11. sound symbolisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sound shift (page history and authors); sound shift (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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