Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

weise's law

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: weise's law
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A sound law describing the loss of palatal quality that some consonants undergo in specific contexts in the Proto-Indo-European language.

Etymology

Named after the German linguist Oskar Weise, who postulated the law in 1881.

Questions

What does weise's law mean?: A sound law describing the loss of palatal quality that some consonants undergo in specific contexts in the Proto-Indo-European language.
Where does weise's law come from?: Named after the German linguist Oskar Weise, who postulated the law in 1881.

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