What Is a CIVILATION?

The shift from the K sound to the CH sound didn't just happen randomly. It tended to happen when the K sound appeared before a FRONT vowel. The word changed from KASA to CHASE and we have that word today as CHEES. Another similar change occurred to the hard Germanic G sound, G. In the same way that the K sound shifted to a CH sound, the G sound also tended to shift forward and a Cibulate.