单词 | Verner's law |
释义 | Verner's law(ˈvɜːnəz) noun linguistics a modification of Grimm's Law accommodating some of its exceptions. It states that noninitial voiceless fricatives in Proto-Germanic occurring as a result of Grimm's law became voiced fricatives if the previous syllable had been unstressed in Proto-Indo-European Derived forms Vernerian (vɜːˈnɛərɪən) adjective Word origin C19: named after Karl Adolph Verner (1846–96), Danish philologist, who formulated it |
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