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