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GRIMM'S LAW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Grimm's law mean? 

GRIMM'S LAW (noun)
  The noun GRIMM'S LAW has 1 sense:

1. a sound law relating German consonants and consonants in other Indo-European languagesplay

  Familiarity information: GRIMM'S LAW used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GRIMM'S LAW (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A sound law relating German consonants and consonants in other Indo-European languages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Grimm's law" is a kind of...):

sound law (a law describing sound changes in the history of a language)


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