English Explanatory Dictionary

Dybo's law

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A law posited to explain the occurrence of nouns and verbs in Slavic languages that are invariantly accented on the inflectional ending.
  2. A proposed sound law for some branches of Indo-European which posits that long vowels (often reflecting a sequence of short vowel plus laryngeal) inherited from Proto-Indo-European were shortened when immediately preceding an accented syllable.

Word forms

Dybo's law

Etymology

Named after the Soviet accentologist Vladimir Dybo.

Synonyms

Dybo's rule pretonic shortening
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