Grimm's law

短语

格林定律

释义与例句

name
  1. 1.

    A sound change that affected the Proto-Indo-European stop consonants in the development of Proto-Germanic, causing devoicing or change into a fricative.

    格林定律

  2. 2.

    The description of this sound change (as originally formulated by Jacob Grimm), which establishes a set of regular correspondences between early Germanic stops and fricatives, and the consonants of Proto-Indo-European and most other Indo-European languages.

词源

Named for Jacob Grimm (1785–1863), German author, linguist and folklorist.

来源:wiktionary