Grimm (gr m), Jakob Ludwig Karl 1785-1863. German philologist and folklorist who formulated Grimm's Law (1819), the basis for much of modern comparative linguistics. With his brother Wilhelm Karl (1786-1859) he collected Germanic folk tales and published them as Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812-1815). |
Grimm [grɪm]
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(Biographies / Grimm, Jakob Ludwig Karl (ˈjaːkɔp ˈluːtvɪç karl), 1785- -1863, and his brother, Wilhelm Karl (1785-1863) X, German, LANGUAGE: philologists, SOCIAL SCIENCE: folklorists,) Jakob Ludwig Karl (ˈjaːkɔp ˈluːtvɪç karl), 1785-1863, and his brother, Wilhelm Karl (ˈvɪlhɛlm karl), 1786-1859, German philologists and folklorists, who collaborated on Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812-22) and began a German dictionary. Jakob is noted also for his philological work Deutsche Grammatik (1819-37), in which he formulated the law named after him
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| Noun | 1. |  Grimm - the younger of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories (1786-1859) |
| 2. |  Grimm - the older of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories; also author of Grimm's law describing consonant changes in Germanic languages (1785-1863) |
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