5) Metathesis of r. In several Old English words the following change of the position of consonants takes place:
cons+ r + vowel > cons + vowel + r
brunnan - burnan (burn); brenna - beorn (a warrior); hros - hors (horse)
Metathesis of sounds is observed also with other sounds: wascan - waxan (wash)
6.West Germanic gemination of consonants. In the process of palatal mutation, when j was lost and the preceding vowel was short, the consonant after it was doubled (geminated): fullian - fyllan (fill); talian - tellan (tell)
As we can see, the changes in Old English sounds were for the most part reflected in spelling, and we must only rely on the corresponding words from other languages to see what the origin of this or that sound was. The exceptions are only in such instances as various developments of ʒ, voicing of fricatives and palatalization of c, sc, cʒ.
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