sound law

/saʊnd lɔ/
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Other forms: sound laws

Definitions of sound law
  1. noun
    a law describing sound changes in the history of a language
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    types:
    Grimm's law
    a sound law relating German consonants and consonants in other Indo-European languages
    Verner's law
    a qualification of Grimm's law
    type of:
    law, natural law
    a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
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