verner's law in English
noun
1
the observation that voiceless fricatives in Germanic predicted by Grimm's Law became voiced if the preceding syllable in the corresponding Indo-European word was unstressed, as in the English words death and dead.
Verner published his results in 1875, and the patterns he described came to be known as Verner's Law .
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1. ‘The most common Alternant is EAT, though it is not obligatory - indeed, the oldest example I have found so far, from 1882, uses DRINK SLEEP THINK, with no EAT.’ ‘Hence, the voiced Alternants induced by Verner's Law may be expected in both subjunctive pret
2. ‘The most common Alternant is EAT, though it is not obligatory - indeed, the oldest example I have found so far, from 1882, uses DRINK SLEEP THINK, with no EAT.’ ‘Hence, the voiced Alternants induced by Verner's Law may be expected in both subjunctive pret