Elliott Lash wrote:
> Christopher B Wright <faceloran@...> writes:
>
>>Okay, Grimm's Law says that these sound changes took place from
>>Proto-Germanic to Old High German:
(snip material that seemed wrong......)
>>
>>>>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/
>
This is indeed Grimm's law, which operated IE >Proto Germanic. The old
circular M-T-A mnemonic. It occurred to me too, but Chris is asking about
Gmc > High German, which is different.......(and I don't recall the
details.)