Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sievers's law

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: siev-er-s's law
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A rule in Indo-European linguistics that accounts for the pronunciation of a consonant cluster with a glide (*w or *y) before a vowel as it was affected by the phonetics of the preceding syllable.

Etymology

Named after the philologist Eduard Sievers (1850–1932).

Questions

What does sievers's law mean?: A rule in Indo-European linguistics that accounts for the pronunciation of a consonant cluster with a glide (*w or *y) before a vowel as it was affected by the phonetics of the preceding syllable.
Where does sievers's law come from?: Named after the philologist Eduard Sievers (1850–1932).

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