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grimm's law

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See law.

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  • noun a sound law relating German consonants and consonants in other Indo-European languages

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  1. sound law

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  • chained_bear commented on the word grimm's law

    "Through the effects of Grimm's law, which changes a Proto-Indo-European p to an f and a Proto-Indo-European d to a t in the history of the Germanic languages..."

    —More Word Histories and Mysteries, from the editors of American Heritage Dictionaries, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006

    August 30, 2008