• Kluge's law is a controversial Proto-Germanic sound law formulated by Friedrich Kluge. It purports to explain the origin of the Proto-Germanic long consonants...
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    with non-initial ⟨p⟩ are quite common; such words can come from either Kluge's law or the consonant cluster /sp/ (PIE: *p has been preserved after s). P...
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  • subfamilies and languages. Germanic spirant law Grimm's law Holtzmann's law Sievers' law Verner's law Kluge's law Germanic a-mutation Germanic umlaut (all...
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    to Hermann Paul. A Proto-Germanic sound law that he formulated in a paper in 1884 is now known as Kluge's law. He died in Freiburg, Germany. Wikisource...
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  • Sound change (redirect from Sound law)
    spirant law Canaanite shift Cot-caught merger Dahl's law Grassmann's law Great Vowel Shift (English) Grimm's law High German consonant shift Kluge's law Onbin...
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  • law: for the vast majority of animals, an animal's metabolic rate scales to the 3⁄4 power of the animal's mass. Named after Max Kleiber. Kluge's law:...
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    wicker 'soothsayer') and suggests Proto-Germanic *wigōn, geminated (c.f. Kluge's law) to *wikkōn. The basic form would then be the feminine, wicce < *wikkæ...
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  • witness in Carter v Canada (AG). Dr Kluge's complaint to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada lead to the Law School Admission Council's no longer...
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  • the suffix in the zero grade in some forms. Under the controversial Kluge's Law, a paradigmatic n in an an-stem immediately succeeding a stop consonant...
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    can be explained by Kluge's law, by which geminates arose from stops followed by a nasal in a stressed syllable. Since this sound law only operated in part...
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