VERNER'S LAW


Meaning of VERNER'S LAW in English

Pronunciation: ' ver-n ə rz-

Function: noun

Etymology: Karl A. Verner

Date: 1878

: a statement in historical linguistics: in medial or final position in voiced environments and when the immediately preceding vowel did not bear the principal accent in Proto-Indo-European, the Proto-Germanic voiceless fricatives f, þ , and derived from the Proto-Indo-European voiceless stops p, t, and k and the Proto-Germanic voiceless fricative s derived from Proto-Indo-European s became the voiced fricatives ƀ , ð , , and z represented in various recorded Germanic languages by b, d, g, and r

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