| 单词 | grassmann's law |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGrassmann's Law Grassmann's Law n. (also with lower-case initial in second element) [compare German Grassmanns Gesetz (1880 or earlier)] Linguistics a phonetic law formulated by Hermann Grassmann which states that where two aspirated plosives occurred in neighbouring syllables in Indo-European, dissimilation took place and the first of the two lost its aspiration in Greek and Sanskrit.E.g. the case cited in quot. 1886, where an earlier χ (/kh/) became unaspirated κ ( /k/) owing to the influence of the following θ ( /th/).This law was formulated to explain apparent exceptions to Grimm's law (see Grimm's law n. at law n.1 17c(c)) and published in 1863 ( Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung 12 81–138).extracted from Grassmannn.Grassmann's law Grassmann's law n. published by Hermann Grassmann in 1863, is that when primitive Aryan had two aspirates in the same or successive syllables the former of them was in Sanskrit changed into the corresponding media, and in Greek into the corresponding tenuis.extracted from lawn.1< as lemmas |
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