Explore: Compensatory Lengthening

§ Brackets and transcription delimiters. Compensatory lengthening in phonology and historical linguistics is the lengthening of a vowel sound that happens upon

Because of the σ (sigma), it is also called sigmatic aorist. Compensatory lengthening affects first aorist forms whose verbal root ends in a sonorant

the consonant was lengthened, so that the syllable would continue to be heavy. This sound change is called compensatory lengthening, because the vowel

vowel before the consonant cluster, causing the vowel to lengthen by compensatory lengthening. PIE VsR or VRs → Attic/Ionic-Doric-Boeotian VVR. PIE VsR

mother' In certain Doric dialects (Severe Doric), *e and *o lengthen by compensatory lengthening or contraction to eta or omega, in contrast to Attic ei and

sound changes like Szemerényi's law and Stang's law, which caused compensatory lengthening of originally short vowels. In the examples above, Szemerényi's

post-PIE long vowel originated from a genuine PIE lengthened grade or is a result of compensatory lengthening before a laryngeal. PIE had a free pitch accent

Artemis Compensatory lengthening of vowel before cluster of sonorant (r, l, n, m, w, sometimes y) and s, after deletion of s. ⁓ some Aeolic: compensatory lengthening

Palatalization (sound change) Fronting (phonology) Raising (phonology) Compensatory lengthening Quantitative metathesis Vowel breaking Podesva, Robert J.; D'Onofrio

except in the accusative plural of ἰχθύς, where it lengthens the preceding υ by compensatory lengthening, yielding ἰχθῦς. A peculiar subset of this declension