Grimm's law

English Etymology Named for Jacob Grimm (1785–1863), German author, linguist and folklorist. Proper noun en 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. en 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. Translations sound change that affected the Proto-Indo-European stop consonants in the development of Proto-Germanic Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 格林定律 Dutch: nl eerste Germaanse klankverschuiving f, nl wet van Grimm f French: fr loi de Grimm f German: de erste Lautverschiebung f, de Grimmsches Gesetz n Polish: pl prawo Grimma n Portuguese: pt lei de Grimm f en eponyms en Brothers Grimm