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Dybo's law

Dybo's law proper noun: a law posited to explain the occurrence of nouns and verbs in Slavic languages that are invariantly accented on the inflectional ending.

Proper noun

Dybo's law

  1. (Indo-European-studies) A law posited to explain the occurrence of nouns and verbs in Slavic languages that are invariantly accented on the inflectional ending.
  2. (Indo-European-studies) A proposed sound law for some branches of Indo-European which posits that long vowels (often reflecting a sequence of short vowel plus laryngeal) inherited from Proto-Indo-European were shortened when immediately preceding an accented syllable.
    Synonyms:
    Dybo's rule, pretonic shortening

Synonyms of Dybo's law

  • Dybo's rule
  • pretonic shortening

Origin of Dybo's law

Named after the Soviet accentologist Vladimir Dybo.

Questions about Dybo's law

What does Dybo's law mean?
Dybo's law means a law posited to explain the occurrence of nouns and verbs in Slavic languages that are invariantly accented on the inflectional ending.
What part of speech is Dybo's law?
Dybo's law is a proper noun.

Words near Dybo's law in the dictionary

  1. dybbukim
  2. dybbuks
  3. Dybell
  4. Dyble
  5. Dybo
  6. Dybo's law
  7. dybs
  8. DYC
  9. dyce
  10. Dyche
  11. Dyches

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