Icelandic Grammar - Sound Shifts

Sound Shifts

There are a number of sound shifts that occur in Icelandic, detailed below. The shifts occur very frequently across all word classes. For one of the most thorough books about the subject see Íslenzk málfræði handa æðri skólum.

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Famous quotes containing the words sound and/or shifts:

    “Monte Beragon: When I’m close to you like this, there’s a sound in the air like the beating of wings. Do you know what that is?
    Mildred Pierce: No, what?
    Monte Beragon: My heart, beating like a schoolboy’s.
    Mildred Pierce: Is it? I thought it was mine.”
    —Ranald MacDougall (1915–1973)

    “God is a foreman with certain definite views
    Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.”
    —Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)