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Categories: Sound laws, Indo-European linguistics

Verner's law Werner's Law Verners Law Wernher's law

A qualification of Grimm's law WordNet 3.0

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A qualification of Grimm's law WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Verner's law describes a historical sound change in the Proto-Germanic language whereby consonants that would usually have been the voiceless fricatives *f, *þ, *s, *h, *hʷ, following an unstressed syllable, became the voiced fricatives *β, *ð, *z, *ɣ, *ɣʷ. Wikipedia

Historical sound change in the Proto-Germanic language Wikipedia Disambiguation

A sound law describing the voicing of voiceless fricatives in early Proto-Germanic, due to placement of the accent on a word. Wiktionary

Sound law describing the voicing of voiceless fricatives in early Proto-Germanic. Wiktionary (translation)

IS A

sound law

phonetic rule

FACET OF

first Germanic consonant shift

NAMED AFTER

Verner

WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Verner's law