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compensatory lengthening
–noun Historical Linguistics.
the lengthening of a vowel when a following consonant is weakened or lost, as the change from Old English niht [nikht] Pronunciation Key to night [nahyt] Pronunciation Key, with loss of [kh] Pronunciation Key and lengthening of [i] Pronunciation Key to a vowel that eventually became [ahy] Pronunciation Key.
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