sound law

Noun
  1. A law describing sound changes in the history of a language (synset 106190436)
    is a type of: law, natural law - a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
    subtypes:
    • grimm's law - a sound law relating German consonants and consonants in other Indo-European languages
    • verner's law - a qualification of Grimm's law
    is a part of: diachronic linguistics, diachrony, historical linguistics - the study of linguistic change

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