English Dictionary

Grimm's law

固有名詞

印欧語研究

(Indo-European studies) A sound change that affected the Proto-Indo-European stop consonants in the development of Proto-Germanic, causing devoicing or change into a fricative.

日本語の意味

グリムの法則とは、原インド・ヨーロッパ語の破裂音（ストップ）が、ゲルマン語の発展過程において無声音化または摩擦音化した音韻変化を指す法則である。

During the historical linguistics seminar, we explored Grimm's law, the sound change that devoiced Proto-Indo-European stops or turned them into fricatives in Proto-Germanic.

歴史言語学のゼミでは、プロト・インド・ヨーロッパ語の破裂音を無声化させたり摩擦音に変化させたりしたグリムの法則について検討しました。

意味（1）

(Indo-European studies) A sound change that affected the Proto-Indo-European stop consonants in the development of Proto-Germanic, causing devoicing or change into a fricative.

意味（2）

(Indo-European studies) The description of this sound change (as originally formulated by Jacob Grimm), which establishes a set of regular correspondences between early Germanic stops and fricatives, and the consonants of Proto-Indo-European and most other Indo-European languages.