Verner`s law, stated by Karl Verner in 1875, describes a historical sound change in the Proto-Germanic language whereby voiceless fricatives *f, *þ, *s, *h, *hʷ, when immediately following an unstressed syllable in the same word, underwent voicing and became respectively the fricatives *b, *d, *z, *g, *gʷ. == The problem == When Grimm`s law w.....
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• A statement, propounded by the Danish philologist Karl Verner in 1875, which explains certain apparent exceptions to Grimm`s law by the original position of the accent. Primitive Indo-European k, t, p, became first in Teutonic h, th, f, and appear without further change in old Teutonic, if the accent rested on the preceding syllable; but ......
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linguistic explanation of the apparent exceptions to Grimm`s law (q.v.), which first demonstrated the significant role that accent (stress) played ... [3 related articles]
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Ver'ner's law (Philol.) A statement, propounded by the Danish philologist Karl Verner in 1875, which explains certain apparent exceptions to Grimm's law by the original position of the accent. Primitive Indo-European
k ,
t ,
p , became first in Teutonic
h ,
th ,
f , and appear...
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n] - a qualification of Grimm`s law
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noun a qualification of Grimm`s law
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