English Explanatory Dictionary

Cowgill's law

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  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. 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/.

Word forms

Cowgill's law

Etymology

Named after Indo-Europeanist Warren Cowgill.

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