Grimm's law
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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.
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