Cowgill's law

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释义与例句

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  1. 1.

    A law of sound change, stating that a former /o/ vowel in Proto-Greek becomes /u/ between a resonant (/r/, /l/, /m/, /n/) and a labial consonant (including labiovelars), in either order.

  2. 2.

    A law of sound change, stating that a Proto-Indo-European laryngeal /h₃/, and possibly /h₂/, turns into /k/ when directly preceded by a sonorant and followed by /w/.

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Named after Indo-Europeanist Warren Cowgill.

来源：wiktionary