English Explanatory Dictionary

Weise's law

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A sound law describing the loss of palatal quality that some consonants undergo in specific contexts in the Proto-Indo-European language.

Word forms

Weise's law

Etymology

Named after the German linguist Oskar Weise, who postulated the law in 1881.

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