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grimm's law

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.31 in modern English

Syllables
grim-m's law
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A sound change that affected the Proto-Indo-European stop consonants in the development of Proto-Germanic, causing devoicing or change into a fricative.

name

The description of this sound change (as originally formulated by Jacob Grimm), which establishes a set of regular correspondences between early Germanic stops and fricatives, and the consonants of Proto-Indo-European and most other Indo-European languages.

Etymology

Named for Jacob Grimm (1785–1863), German author, linguist and folklorist.

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Law.

Questions

What does grimm's law mean?
A sound change that affected the Proto-Indo-European stop consonants in the development of Proto-Germanic, causing devoicing or change into a fricative.
Where does grimm's law come from?
Named for Jacob Grimm (1785–1863), German author, linguist and folklorist.

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