Re: Grimm's Law

ARG!

I misread what you had said. I assumed that you meant "Grimm's Law from
Indo-European to Proto-Germanic" which Grimm's Law usually refers to. You meant
the 1st-(2nd?)-Germanic Sound Shift, oops....there I can't really help you.

Elliott Lash

 Elliott Lash <AL260@...> writes:

> Christopher B Wright <faceloran@...> writes:
>
>>Okay, Grimm's Law says that these sound changes took place from
>>Proto-Germanic to Old High German:
>>p_0 > f
>>t_0 > d
>>k_0 > h
>>b_0 > p
>>d_0 > t
>>g_0 > kh
>>
>>What distinction besides voice did Grimm have for these consonant pairs?
>>That is, how did p_0 differ from b_0?
>>
>>The all-too-curious
>>Chris Wright
>
>
>Hmm, this doesn't look right.
>What I've seen for Grimm's law is:
>
>/p/   > /f/
>/t/   > /T/
>/k/   > /x/
>/b/   > /p/
>/d/   > /t/
>/g/   > /k/
>/b_h/ > /b/
>/d_h/ > /d/
>/g_h/ > /g/
>
>/b_h/, /d_h/, and /g_h/ are all aspirated. And, /t/ etc are self explanatory.
>
>Elliott Lash
>