Year: | 1822 | ||
Short description: | Grimm's Law postulated | ||
Medium description: | Grimm's Law is a description of the way in which the consonants of the IE group changed systematically to form the consonants used in the Germanic branch. 3 changes occured voicless stops > voicelss frictives; voiced stops > voiceless stops; aspirated voiced stops > voiced stops. The 'law' first appeared in the second edition of his work 'Deutsche Grammatik' Jacob Grimm was a German philologist and with his brother also collected German folk stories | ||
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