English Explanatory Dictionary

Winter's law

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A sound law operating on Balto-Slavic short vowels, according to which they lengthen before unaspirated voiced stops, and that syllable gains rising, acute accent.

Word forms

Winter's law

Etymology

Named after Werner Winter, who postulated it in 1978.

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