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Grimm's Law
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Grimm's law
Grimm's Law
(also known as the
First Germanic
Sound Shift
or
Rask
's rule
) is a set of statements named after
Jacob Grimm
describing the inherited
Proto-Indo-European
(PIE)
stop consonants
as they developed in
Proto-Germanic
(the common ancestor of the
Germanic
branch of the Indo-European family) in the 1st millennium BC. It establishes a set of regular correspondences between early
Germanic
stop
s and
fricatives
and the stop consonants of certain other
centum
Indo-European languages
(Grimm used mostly
Latin
and
Greek
for illustration).
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