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Noun Concept
Categories: Sound laws, Proto-Indo-European language
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Osthoff's law  Osthoff’s law
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Osthoff's law is an Indo-European sound law which states that long vowels shorten when followed by a resonant, followed in turn by another consonant. Wikipedia
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Osthoff's law is an Indo-European sound law which states that long vowels shorten when followed by a resonant, followed in turn by another consonant. Wikipedia
Indo-European shortening of long vowels before syllable-final resonants Wikidata
IS A
phonetic rule
NAMED AFTER
Hermann Osthoff
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Osthoff's law
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Osthoff's law
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Osthoff’s law

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