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GRIMM'S LAW
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Grimm's law mean?
• GRIMM'S LAW (noun)
The noun GRIMM'S LAW has 1 sense:
1. a sound law relating German consonants and consonants in other Indo-European languages
Familiarity information: GRIMM'S LAW used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sound law relating German consonants and consonants in other Indo-European languages
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Grimm's law" is a kind of...):
sound law (a law describing sound changes in the history of a language)
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