Dahl's law

English

Etymology

Calque of German Dahlsche Gesetz, coined by Carl Meinhof.

Proper noun

Dahl's law

  1. (linguistics) A voicing dissimilation rule in some Northeast Bantu languages.
    • 1985 January 1, N. E. Collinge, The Laws of Indo-European‎[1], John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 279:
      Bantu has been the object of appeal by adherents of Holtzmann's law (q.v.). As to Dahl's law in that group of languages, it has indeed affinities with several IE laws, but seems not unlike Grassmann's to most who quote it.

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