Kluge's law

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A proposed sound law affecting an early stage of Proto-Germanic, in which a stop consonant plus following /n/ are changed to a geminate consonant when the following vowel is accented, most often in n-stems.

Word forms

Kluge's law

Etymology

Named after German philologist Friedrich Kluge.

Related words

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