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Grimm's law
noun
- the statement of the regular pattern of consonant correspondences presumed to represent changes from Proto-Indo-European to Germanic, according to which voiced aspirated stops became voiced obstruents, voiced unaspirated stops became unvoiced stops, and unvoiced stops became unvoiced fricatives: first formulated in 1820鈥22 by Jakob Grimm, though the facts had been noted earlier by Rasmus Rask.
Grimm's law
/ 伞谤瑟尘锄 /
noun
- the rules accounting for systematic correspondences between consonants in the Germanic languages and consonants in other Indo-European languages; it states that Proto-Indo-European voiced aspirated stops, voiced unaspirated stops, and voiceless stops became voiced unaspirated stops, voiceless stops, and voiceless fricatives respectively
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of Grimm's law1
Example Sentences
This sound change was not random but followed what came to be called Grimm's law, named for the very same brother Grimm who brought us "Hansel and Gretel."
Jakob Grimm was one of the foremost philologists, I studied his 鈥楪rimm鈥檚 Law鈥 in prison鈥攁ll about consonants.
I do not know whether Grimm's law would authorise the antithesis of a d for a p sound, but every student of Romaic will allow the tendency that i and o sounds have for interchanging.
The most lawless etymologist bows down to the authority of Grimm鈥檚 law, even if he honours it almost as much in the breach as in the observance.
This leads to a question which has been the subject of much controversy,鈥擶ho discovered what is known as Grimm鈥檚 law?
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