Verner's law

English

Etymology

Named after Danish linguist Karl Verner (1846–1896).

Proper noun

Verner's law

  1. (Indo-European studies) A sound law describing the voicing of voiceless fricatives in early Proto-Germanic, due to placement of the accent on a word.
    The discovery of Verner's law provided an explanation for the medial voiced plosive in Old English fæder "father".

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