sound law

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sound law - a law describing sound changes in the history of a language

natural law, law - a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society

diachronic linguistics, diachrony, historical linguistics - the study of linguistic change; "the synchrony and diachrony of language"

Grimm's law - a sound law relating German consonants and consonants in other Indo-European languages

Verner's law - a qualification of Grimm's law

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