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Verner's law
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verner's law (n)
a qualification of Grimm's law
verner's law ()
A statement, propounded by the Danish philologist Karl Verner in 1875, which explains certain apparent exceptions to Grimm's law by the original position of the accent. Primitive Indo-European k, t, p, became first in Teutonic h, th, f, and appear without further change in old Teutonic, if the accent rested on the preceding syllable; but these sounds became voiced and produced g, d, b, if the accent was originally on a different syllable. Similarly s either remained unchanged, or it became z and later r. Example: Skt. sapta (accent on ultima), Gr. 'e`pta, Gothic sibun (seven). Examples in English are dead by the side of death, to rise and to rear.
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Verner's law
a qualification of Grimm's lawA statement, propounded by the Danish philologist Karl Verner in 1875, which explains certain apparent exceptions to Grimm's law b
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verner => Verner, verne => Verne, vernation => Vernation, vernate => Opposite lower leaflets, vernant => green,
