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Re: Grimm's Law

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Saturday, April 13, 2002, 20:15
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.)

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