Grimm's Law

Grimm's Law  (grmz)

n.

A formula describing the regular changes undergone by Indo-European stop consonants represented in Germanic, essentially stating that Indo-European p, t, and k became Germanic f, th, and h; Indo-European b, d, and g became Germanic p, t, and k; and Indo-European bh, dh, and gh became Germanic b, d, and g.

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[After Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm.]

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Grimm's law - a sound law relating German consonants and consonants in other Indo-European languages sound law - a law describing sound changes in the history of a language