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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In philology, ‘shifting of sounds’: applied to the changes which a series of regular Indo-European mute consonants of the same class underwent in the Teutonic languages, as if each consonant were shifted forward one degree in its class. See
Grimm's law , under law. A later shifting, sometimes called the second lautverschiebung, appears in the Old High German.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The regular changes which the primitive Indo-European stops, or mute consonants, underwent in the Teutonic languages, probably as early as the 3d century b. c. , often called the
first Lautverschiebung ,sound shifting , orconsonant shifting . - noun A somewhat similar set of changes taking place in the High German dialects (less fully in modern literary German) from the 6th to the 8th century, known as the
second Lautverschiebung , the results of which form the striking differences between High German and The Low German Languages. The statement of these changes is commonly regarded as forming part ofgrimm's law , because included in it as originally framed.
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