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Sievers
(ˈsiːvəz, ‖ ˈziːfərs)
the name of Eduard Sievers (1850–1932), German philologist, used attrib. of the rule formulated by him (Beitr. z. Gesch. d. deutschen Sprache u. Lit. (1878) V. 129) that in Indo-European, (post-consonantal), unaccented i and u before a vowel were consonantal after a short syllable and vocalic after a long syllable; also, this rule as modified by later scholars, or as applied by them to particular early Indo-European languages.
F. Edgerton (Language X (1934) 235 f. and elsewhere) played an important part in developing and modifying the rule, which is now sometimes called ‘Sievers-Edgerton's Law’.
1934Language X. 235 (title) Sievers's law and IE. weak-grade vocalism. 1939E. Prokosch Compar. Gmc. Gram. 92 The difference in treatment according to the character of the preceding syllable..may have been Indo-European; this view was first expressed by Sievers... It is frequently referred to as ‘Sievers' Law’. 1953Jrnl. Eng. & Gmc. Philol. LII. 149 The essential characteristic of the P[roto-]I[ndo-]E[uropean] resonants was their three⁓fold function as vowel, e.g. [i], consonant, [y], or vowel plus consonant [iy], as conditioned by the preceding phonemes; the description of this variation is generally known as Sievers' Law. It is most clearly apparent in our Vedic Sanskrit documents. 1959A. Campbell Old Eng. Gram. 164 This interchange of i̯ and ii̯ is called Sievers' law. 1966M. B. Emeneau in Birnbaum & Puhvel Anc. Indo-Europ. Dialects 126 While Sievers-Edgerton's law was in full working order, something other than pūrva- must have been the phonemic form. 1975Lass & Anderson Old Eng. Phonol. 273 The earliest instance in Germanic..of an important role being played by the long/short syllable dichotomy, is the set of phenomena associated with the vokalischen Auslautsgesetz (‘law of vocalic finals’), now usually called ‘Sievers's Law’, or the ‘Sievers-Edgerton Law’. |