compensatory lengthening

compensatory lengthening
Historical Ling.
the lengthening of a vowel when a following consonant is weakened or lost, as the change from Old English niht /nikht/ to night /nuyt/, with loss of /kh/ and lengthening of /i/ to a vowel that eventually became /uy/.

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