Meillet's law is a Common Slavic accent law, named after the French Indo-Europeanist Antoine Meillet, who discovered it. According to the law, Slavic...

syllables when followed by a long syllable or internal yer. According to Meillet's law, words with a mobile accent paradigm lost the acute feature in the first...

1932: Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine. Meillet's law Pierre Chantraine Antoine Meillet (1912). "L'évolution des formes grammaticales". Scientia...

acted to modify this basic system: Meillet's law, which removed any stem acutes in mobile-accent words. Dybo's law, which advanced the accent in non-acute...

reworked during the Proto-Slavic and Common Slavic period (Dybo's law, Meillet's law, Ivšić's law, etc.), resulting in three Common Slavic accentual paradigms...

accent in words belonging to the mobile accent paradigm. In such forms, Meillet's law resulted in loss of the acute register on the root, so that all initial-accented...

(Dybo's law, Illič-Svityč's law, Meillet's law etc.), and further developments yielded some new accents, such as the so-called neoacute (Ivšić's law), or...

Ivšić's law Accented weak yers (according to Havlík's law) lost their accent to the preceding syllable, which received a "neoacute" accent. Meillet's law In...

*d, *g Merger of *o and *a: PIE *a/*o, *ā/*ō → PS *a, *ā (→ CS *o, *a) Law of open syllables: All closed syllables (syllables ending in a consonant)...

that his people "had already rejected paganism and adhere to the Christian law." Rastislav is said to have expelled missionaries of the Roman Church and...