| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Grimm's Law |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  gr mz |
| NOUN: | A formula describing the regular changes undergone by Indo-European stop consonants represented in Germanic, essentially stating that Indo-European p, t, and k became Germanic f, th, and h; Indo-European b, d, and g became Germanic p, t, and k; and Indo-European bh, dh, and gh became Germanic b, d, and g. | | ETYMOLOGY: | After Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm.
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