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Kluge's law
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English
Etymology
Named after German philologist Friedrich Kluge.
Proper noun
en Indo-European studies A proposed sound law affecting an early stage of Proto-Germanic, in which a stop consonant plus following /n/ are changed to a geminate consonant when the following vowel is accented, most often in n-stems.
See also
en Grimm's law
en Verner's law
en eponyms