compensatory lengthening

When the -n- disappeared, the vowel was lengthened by the process of compensatory lengthening.

This phenomenon is called compensatory lengthening.

Compensatory lengthening is very common in Ancient Greek.

Certain vowels historically underwent compensatory lengthening in certain contexts.

The preceding vowel received compensatory lengthening and was nasalised:

The nominative singular may end in -ς, causing compensatory lengthening, or have no ending.

The latter addition of length is traceable to a grammatical marker *-han that has elided, with compensatory lengthening.

In general, vowels bearing the circumflex accent were historically long (for example, through compensatory lengthening associated with the consonant loss described above).

For example, s following a vowel and preceding another consonant regularly elided, with compensatory lengthening of the vowel.

Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law: Loss of nasals before fricatives, with compensatory lengthening.

The loss of /h/ and /w/ after a consonant were often accompanied by compensatory lengthening of a preceding vowel.

In particular, the stems with j or ϝ lose this sound, and in some cases the preceding vowel is lengthened by compensatory lengthening.

Only when an /n/ disappeared with compensatory lengthening of the preceding vowel did the spirant law itself result in vowel alternation.

Scholars also described and explained the regularities in the development of consonants and vowels under processes of assimilation, reduplication, compensatory lengthening etc.

The loss of part of a word tended to cause compensatory lengthening of the vowel in what was left, and the circumflex designated the long vowel.

The /n/ has disappeared in English, Frisian, Low German, and dialectal Dutch with compensatory lengthening of the /u/.

The absence of a nasal in Old Norse oss is a separate development, as can be seen by the lack of compensatory lengthening of the vowel.

One of these is known as "compensatory lengthening"; this occurred when consonants formerly present were lost: maid is the modern descendant of Old English mægde.

All three Ugric branches contrast vowel length; in Hungarian this is late, generally derived by compensatory lengthening after loss of unstressed vowels and *ɣ.

In this sound change, in certain combinations vowel + nasal + fricative, the nasal disappeared, with compensatory lengthening of the vowel.

(Note that the /s/ is absorbed following an /m/, /n/, /l/ or /r/, with compensatory lengthening of the preceding vowel.

In Attic-Ionic and Doric, the h assimilated to the vowel before the consonant cluster, causing the vowel to lengthen by compensatory lengthening.

In the nominative singular and dative plural, ντ before σ is lost, and the previous vowel is lengthened by compensatory lengthening.

Phonological processes in Hawaiian include palatalization and deletion of consonants, and the raising, diphthongization, deletion, and compensatory lengthening of vowels.

Compensatory lengthening in phonology and historical linguistics is the lengthening of a vowel sound that happens upon the loss of a following consonant, usually in the syllable coda.