Usually means: Change in pronunciation over time.
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  1. sound shift: Merriam-Webster
  2. sound shift: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sound shift: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Sound shift: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. sound shift: TheFreeDictionary.com
  6. sound shift: Wiktionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (sound shift)

noun:  (linguistics) a regular sound change, especially when several phonemes are synchronously affected in analogous ways, and/or when there are several interlinked phases


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