Grassmann's law
noun
Grass·mann's law
ˈgra|smənz,
-raa|,
-rai|,
-rä|,
-rȧ|
: a statement of certain regular changes exhibited by Indo-European voiced aspirates in Sanskrit and Greek: when the aspirates occur at the beginning of successive syllables one of them, usually the first, loses its aspiration and becomes in Greek a voiceless stop and in Sanskrit a voiced stop compare grimm's law
Word History
Etymology
after Hermann G. Grassmann †1877 German mathematician & Sanskritist