Named after Danish linguist Karl Verner (1846–1896). Proper noun . Verner 's law (Indo-European studies) A sound law describing the voicing of voiceless fricatives in early Proto-Germanic, due to placement of the accent on a word. Translations

Verner's law describes a historical sound change in the Proto-Germanic language whereby consonants that would usually have been the voiceless fricatives *f, *þ, *s, *h, *hʷ, following an unstressed syllable, became the voiced fricatives *β, *ð, *z, *ɣ, *ɣʷ.[1] The law was formulated by …

Na linguística histórica, dar-se o nome de Lei de Verner, a análise comparativa entre as língua indo-europeia e germânica, no que diz respeito às consoantes /p/, /t/ e /k/. Em 1822, Jacob Grimm, ao analisar as línguas referidas, constatou que as consoantes /p/, /t/ e /k/ transformaram-se, ao longo do tempo, em /f/, /θ/ e /h/, respectivamente.

Named after its discoverer, the Danish linguist Karl Verner and formulated by him in 1875, Verner's law (uncommon: according to Duden, “Verner's law, occasionally Verner's law”) describes an effective exception to the first (Germanic) sound shift in ancient Germanic, namely the voicing ( sonorisation) of the newly created voiceless fricatives * f, * þ, * χ, * χʷ, * s under …

Das Vernersche Gesetz beschreibt eine historische Lautänderung in der protogermanischen Sprache, bei der Konsonanten, die normalerweise die stimmlosen Frikative * f , * þ , * s , * h , * hʷ gewesen wären , nach einer unbetonten Silbe zu den stimmhaften Frikativen * β wurden. * ð , * z , * ɣ , * ɣʷ . Das Gesetz wurde von Karl Verner formuliert und ...