SOUND LAW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sound law mean? 

• SOUND LAW (noun)
  The noun SOUND LAW has 1 sense:

1. a law describing sound changes in the history of a language

  Familiarity information: SOUND LAW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUND LAW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A law describing sound changes in the history of a language

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("sound law" is a kind of...):

law; natural law (a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sound law"):

Grimm's law (a sound law relating German consonants and consonants in other Indo-European languages)

Verner's law (a qualification of Grimm's law)

Holonyms ("sound law" is a part of...):

diachronic linguistics; diachrony; historical linguistics (the study of linguistic change)