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Noun Concept
Categories: Articles with short description, History of the German language, Germanic language histories, History of the Dutch language, History of the English language
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Grimm's law  Grimms law  first Germanic consonant shift  First Germanic Sound Shift  First sound shift
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A sound law relating German consonants and consonants in other Indo-European languages WordNet 3.0
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A sound law relating German consonants and consonants in other Indo-European languages WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Grimm's law is a set of sound laws describing the Proto-Indo-European stop consonants as they developed in Proto-Germanic in the 1st millennium BC. Wikipedia
A sound change that affected the Proto-Indo-European stop consonants in the development of Proto-Germanic, causing devoicing or change into a fricative. Wiktionary
IS A
sound law
phonetic rule
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
FACET OF
first Germanic consonant shift
NAMED AFTER
Grimm
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Grimm's law
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first Germanic consonant shift, First Germanic Sound Shift, First sound shift, Germanic sound shift, Great consonant shift, Grim's Law, Grimm's Law, Grimms Law, Grimms law, Rask's-Grimm's rule, Rask's rule

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