[Ver.ner's law] n [Karl A. Verner] (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 derived from the Proto-Indo-European voiceless stops and the Proto-Germanic voiceless fricative s derived from Proto-Indo-European s became voiced fricatives represented in various recorded Germanic languages by b, d, g, and r
VERNER'S LAW
Meaning of VERNER'S LAW in English
Merriam-Webster English vocab. Английский словарь Merriam Webster. 2012