grimm's law

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   a sound law relating German consonants and consonants in other Indo-European languages

   Broadersound law

Questions about grimm's law

What does grimm's law mean?

grimm's law means "a sound law relating German consonants and consonants in other Indo-European languages".

Is grimm's law a common word?

grimm's law is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.