From formal English to slang. 2014.
Grimm's law — (also known as the First Germanic Sound Shift or the Rask s Grimm s rule) named for Jacob Grimm, is a set of statements describing the inherited Proto Indo European (PIE) stops as they developed in Proto Germanic (PGmc, the common ancestor of the … Wikipedia
Grimm's law — Law Law (l[add]), n. [OE. lawe, laghe, AS. lagu, from the root of E. lie: akin to OS. lag, Icel. l[ o]g, Sw. lag, Dan. lov; cf. L. lex, E. legal. A law is that which is laid, set, or fixed; like statute, fr. L. statuere to make to stand. See… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Grimm's law — n. [after Jakob Grimm (see GRIMM Jakob (Ludwig Karl)) in honor of his formulation (1822) of parallels noted by himself & RASK Rasmus Christian] the statement of a series of systematic prehistoric changes of reconstructed Indo European consonants… … English World dictionary
Grimm's law — noun a sound law relating German consonants and consonants in other Indo European languages • Hypernyms: ↑sound law * * * ˈgrimz noun Usage: usually capitalized G & often capitalized L Etymology: after Jacob Grimm died 1863 German philologist 1 … Useful english dictionary
Grimm's law — Ling. the statement of the regular pattern of consonant correspondences presumed to represent changes from Proto Indo European to Germanic, according to which voiced aspirated stops became voiced obstruents, voiced unaspirated stops became… … Universalium
Grimm's law — /ˈgrɪmz lɔ/ (say grimz law) noun an account of the systematic nature of a series of shifts in the consonants of Germanic languages compared with those of other Indo European languages, developed by Jakob Grimm during 1820–22 on the basis of work… …
GRIMM'S LAW — as enunciated by J. L. Grimm, is the law regulating the interchange of mute consonants in languages of Aryan origin, aspirates, flats, and sharps in the classical languages corresponding respectively to flats, sharps, and aspirates in Low… … The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
Grimm's law — noun Etymology: Jacob Grimm Date: 1838 a statement in historical linguistics: Proto Indo European voiceless stops became Proto Germanic voiceless fricatives (as in Greek pyr, treis, kardia compared with English fire, three, heart), Proto Indo… … New Collegiate Dictionary
Grimm's law — noun Linguistics the observation that certain consonants undergo regular changes in the Germanic languages which are not seen in others such as Greek or Latin. Origin from the name of the 19th cent. German philologist and folklorist Jacob Grimm … English new terms dictionary
Law — (l[add]), n. [OE. lawe, laghe, AS. lagu, from the root of E. lie: akin to OS. lag, Icel. l[ o]g, Sw. lag, Dan. lov; cf. L. lex, E. legal. A law is that which is laid, set, or fixed; like statute, fr. L. statuere to make to stand. See {Lie} to be… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
