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whereby k sounds became fricative, eventually becoming h sounds. Germanic speakers also sometimes appear to have applied this soundchange to Celtic loanwords, for example in the case of the Celtic Volcae, whose name became Walha in Germanic.
*The second consonantal sound was also rendered in several ways. According to Rübekeil the spelling "-tth-" clearly predominates over "-tt-". This may represent a ?-sound as in English "th", or an affricate "ts". This pattern of variation

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