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dybo's law

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
dy-bo's law
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A law posited to explain the occurrence of nouns and verbs in Slavic languages that are invariantly accented on the inflectional ending.

name

A proposed sound law for some branches of Indo-European which posits that long vowels (often reflecting a sequence of short vowel plus laryngeal) inherited from Proto-Indo-European were shortened when immediately preceding an accented syllable.

Etymology

Named after the Soviet accentologist Vladimir Dybo.

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Law.

Synonyms

Dybo's rule pretonic shortening

Questions

What does dybo's law mean?
A law posited to explain the occurrence of nouns and verbs in Slavic languages that are invariantly accented on the inflectional ending.
Where does dybo's law come from?
Named after the Soviet accentologist Vladimir Dybo.

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