| 单词 | verner's law |
| 释义 | Verner's lawnoun Linguistics.the statement by K. Verner of a regularity behind some apparent exceptions in the Germanic languages to Grimm's law, namely, that Proto-Germanic voiceless fricatives became voiced when between voiced sounds if the immediately preceding vowel was not accented in Proto-Indo-European. Origin of Verner's lawFirst recorded in 1890–95 Words nearby Verner's lawvernation, Vernazza, Verne, Verne, Jules, Verner, Verner's law, Vernet, Vernet's syndrome, Verneuil process, vernicle, vernier Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for Verner's lawVerner's law / (ˈvɜːnəz) / nounlinguistics 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 of Verner's lawVernerian (vɜːˈnɛərɪən), adjectiveWord Origin for Verner's lawC19: named after Karl Adolph Verner (1846–96), Danish philologist, who formulated it Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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