WebJun 21, 2024 · Verner wrote about this and called it The Exception to the First Consonantal Shift, these exceptions were: These contradicted the expected sounds of f, θ/ þ, and h respectively. The PIE words follow Grimm’s Law if the preceding syllable was unstressed. If stress was present, the voiceless fricatives (what Grimm predicted) became voiced. Webverner's law explained the exceptions to Grimm's law and attributed it largely to various combinative factors particularly to accented or unaccented vowels c...
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WebThis is probably true from Grimm's Law as well, and as Grimm's Law describes a group of sound changes, and not a single sound change, it probably involved several seperate sound changes occuring over a period of time. As for whether those changes all began and ended at the exact same moment--who knows. WebGrimm’s law, description of the regular correspondences in Indo-European languages formulated by Jacob Grimm in his Deutsche Grammatik … ief238d ibmuser - reply device name or cancel
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WebVerner’s law, linguistic explanation of the apparent exceptions to Grimm’s law (q.v.), which first demonstrated the significant role that accent (stress) played in linguistic … Grimm's law (also known as the First Germanic Sound Shift) is a set of sound laws describing the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) stop consonants as they developed in Proto-Germanic in the 1st millennium BC. First systematically put forward by Jacob Grimm but previously remarked upon by Rasmus Rask, it establishes a set of regular correspondences between early Germanic stops and fricatives and stop consonants of certain other centum Indo-European languages. WebGrimm's law: [noun] a statement in historical linguistics: Proto-Indo-European voiceless stops became Proto-Germanic voiceless fricatives (as in Greek pyr, treis, kardia compared with English fire, three, heart), Proto-Indo-European voiced stops became Proto-Germanic voiceless stops (as in Latin duo, genus compared with English two, kin), and ... ieex indice