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Grimm's law
Sign in to savesound shift in the Germanic languages in which PIE voiceless stops become fricatives, PIE voiced stops become voiceless and PIE voiced aspirated stops become voiced stops or fricatives
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 498 inbound references to Grimm's law, and connects out to Proto-Germanic, Gothic and fricative consonant.
It is catalogued under the topic Germanic sound laws.
Vinony links it to 48 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- phonetic rule
- Named after
- Jacob Grimm
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- facet of
- first Germanic consonant shift
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- Stack Exchange tag
- linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/grimms-law
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Encyclopedic overview
A diagram of Grimm's law and Verner's law
Grimm's law, also known as the First Germanic Consonant Shift or First Germanic Sound Shift, is a set of sound laws describing the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) stop consonants as they developed in Proto-Germanic in the first millennium BCE, first discovered by Rasmus Rask but systematically put forward by Jacob Grimm. It establishes a set of regular correspondences between early Germanic stops and fricatives and stop consonants of certain other Indo-European languages.
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