Sievers's law

English

Etymology

Named after the philologist Eduard Sievers (1850–1932).

Proper noun

Sievers's law

  1. A rule in Indo-European linguistics that accounts for the pronunciation of a consonant cluster with a glide (*w or *y) before a vowel as it was affected by the phonetics of the preceding syllable.
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