Noun
a sound law relating German consonants and consonants in other Indo-European languages
Source: WordNetBehaviour 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