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Grimm's law

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Grimm's law, also known as the First Germanic Sound Shift or Rask's rule[citation needed], is a set of sound laws describing the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) stop consonants as they developed in Proto-Germanic in the first millennium BC, first discovered by Rasmus Rask but systematically put forward by Jacob Grimm. It establishes a set of regular correspondences between early Germanic stops and fricatives and stop consonants of certain other Indo-European languages.


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Eerste Germaanse klankverskuiwing AF Lei de Grimm AN Llei de Grimm AST Закон на Грим Bulgarian Llei de Grimm Catalan Grimmův zákon Czech Germanske lydforskydning Danish Erste Lautverschiebung German Leĝo de Grimm EO Ley de Grimm Spanish

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