Primärberührung

German

Etymology

From primär (“primary”) +‎ Berührung (“contact, touching”).

Noun

Primärberührung f (genitive Primärberührung, plural Primärberührungen)

  1. (linguistics) the Proto-Germanic sound law by which any labial obstruent + -t- becomes -ft-, and any velar obstruent + -t- becomes -(c)ht-; (by extension) similar sound changes in other languages (e.g. Celtic)
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