statements describing the inherited Proto-Indo-European stops as they developed in Proto-Germanic. It establishes a set of regular correspondences between early Germanic stops and fricatives and the stop consonants of certain other centum Indo-European languages.' name='description'> Grimm's law - definition and meaning
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Grimm's law

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  • noun linguistics A set of statements describing the inherited Proto-Indo-European stops as they developed in Proto-Germanic. It establishes a set of regular correspondences between early Germanic stops and fricatives and the stop consonants of certain other centum Indo-European languages.

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Named for Jacob Grimm.

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