In Other Parts of Speech
Grammatischer Wechsel originally applied to any pair of etymologically related words that had different accent placement, including also PIE athematic nouns. The alternations in nouns were largely eliminated early on in Germanic, but a few cases exist where parallel forms were still preserved in different Germanic languages (such as English glass and Icelandic gler, an example of the s-z alternation). No attested language, old or modern, shows any alternation in noun paradigms, however.
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