Grimm's law

Noun

Meaning

a sound law relating German consonants and consonants in other Indo-European languages

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Examples

Behaviour in consonant clusters When two obstruents occurred in a pair, the first was changed according to Grimm's law, if possible, while the second was not. Source: Internet

Further changes Once the changes described by Grimm's law had taken place, there was only one type of voiced consonant, with no distinction between voiced stops and voiced fricatives. Source: Internet

Grimm's law was the first non-trivial systematic sound change to be discovered. Source: Internet

However, because of the way words in the two languages evolved from Proto-Indo-European (PIE) roots, they cannot be cognate (see for example Grimm's law ). Source: Internet

The problem When Grimm's law was discovered, a strange irregularity was spotted in its operation. Source: Internet

This alternative sequence also accounts for the phonetics of Verner's law (see below), which are easier to explain within the glottalic theory framework when Grimm's law is formulated in this manner. Source: Internet

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