Appendix:German cognates with English/Regular cognates with differing consonant values/Proto-Germanic Liquids, Nasals and Semivowels

Proto-Germanic *r, *z
Proto-Germanic *z developed into Proto-West Germanic *r. Both languages exhibit some tendency to drop the original *r.

German ∅, n ~ English ∅, n
Both languages exhibit some tendency to drop the original *n.