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In any case the compound seems to be later than OE in which all intervocalic or spirants were voiced.

languagehat.com: ELVER AND ALBUM. 2005

There was a common factor in the change of p to f, of t to þ, and of k to h, namely, that the unvoiced plosives had become spirants, while retaining the same place of articulation.

STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968

The spirants thorn and eth are represented by _th_ and _d_, as being more familiar to readers unacquainted with the original.

The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 L. Winifred Faraday

Examples of such “spirants” or “fricatives, ” as they are called, are s and z and y.

Chapter 3. The Sounds of Language 1921

The raising of English long o to u and of long e to i, for instance, was part of a general tendency to raise the position of the long vowels, just as the change of t to ss in Old High German was part of a general tendency to make voiceless spirants of the old voiceless stopped consonants.

Chapter 8. Language as a Historical Product: Phonetic Law 1921

The vowels tend to become higher or lower, the diphthongs tend to coalesce into monophthongs, the voiceless consonants tend to become voiced, stops tend to become spirants.

Chapter 8. Language as a Historical Product: Phonetic Law 1921

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