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====Gemination by assimilation==== | ====Gemination by assimilation==== | ||
After a stressed vowel, /p/ arising from /kʷ/ geminated: | |||
*PGmc. ''[[wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/nakwô#Proto-Germanic|*nakwô]]'' → ''{{term|napp#Niemish|nàpp}}'' ("riverboat") | *PGmc. ''[[wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/nakwô#Proto-Germanic|*nakwô]]'' → ''{{term|napp#Niemish|nàpp}}'' ("riverboat") | ||
Presumably the same would have happened to /b/ arising from /gʷ/, but ungeminated /gʷ/ did not occur after vowels in Gothic. | Presumably the same would have happened to /b/ arising from /gʷ/, but ungeminated /gʷ/ did not occur after vowels in Gothic. | ||