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meillet's law

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
meil-let's law
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A Common Slavic accent law, according to which Slavic words have a circumflex on the root vowel (i.e. the first syllable) if that word had a mobile accent paradigm in Proto-Slavic and Proto-Balto-Slavic, regardless of whether the root had the Balto-Slavic acute register.

Etymology

Named after the French Indo-Europeanist Antoine Meillet, who discovered it.

Questions

What does meillet's law mean?
A Common Slavic accent law, according to which Slavic words have a circumflex on the root vowel (i.e. the first syllable) if that word had a mobile accent paradigm in Proto-Slavic and Proto-Balto-Slavic, regardless of whether the root had the Balto-Slavic acute register.
Where does meillet's law come from?
Named after the French Indo-Europeanist Antoine Meillet, who discovered it.

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