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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Grimm's lawnoun

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

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  1. Grimm's law

    Grimm's law (also known as the First Germanic Sound Shift) is a set of sound laws describing the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) stop consonants as they developed in Proto-Germanic in the 1st millennium BC. First systematically put forward by Jacob Grimm but previously remarked upon by Rasmus Rask, it establishes a set of regular correspondences between early Germanic stops and fricatives and stop consonants of certain other centum Indo-European languages.

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  1. grimm's law

    Grimm's Law, also known as the First Germanic Sound Shift, is a set of linguistic laws proposed by Jacob Grimm. It describes the systematic phonetic changes that occurred in the protolinguistic period of the Germanic languages, most significantly in the shift of Proto-Indo-European stop consonants to fricatives and voiceless stops. This set of laws is crucial in the field of historical linguistics, as it helps explain the similarities and differences among the Germanic languages in comparison to other Indo-European languages.

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  1. Grimm's law

    Grimm's law, named after Jacob Grimm, is a set of statements describing the inherited Proto-Indo-European stop consonants as they developed in Proto-Germanic in the 1st millennium BC. It establishes a set of regular correspondences between early Germanic stops and fricatives and the stop consonants of certain other centum Indo-European languages.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Grimm's Law

    See Law.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Grimm's Law

    as enunciated by J. L. Grimm, is the law regulating the interchange of mute consonants in languages of Aryan origin, aspirates, flats, and sharps in the classical languages corresponding respectively to flats, sharps, and aspirates in Low German, and to sharps, aspirates, and flats in High German tongues.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of grimm's law in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of grimm's law in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

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