GRIMM'S LAW


Meaning of GRIMM'S LAW in English

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the statement of the regular pattern of consonant correspondences presumed to represent changes from Proto-Indo-European to Germanic, according to which voiced aspirated stops became voiced obstruents, voiced unaspirated stops became unvoiced stops, and unvoiced stops became unvoiced fricatives: first formulated in 1820-22 by Jakob Grimm, though the facts had been noted earlier by Rasmus Rask.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .