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Sievers' law

Sievers' law is the alternative form of Sievers's law.

Meaning of Sievers's law

Proper noun

Sievers's law

  1. (Indo-European-studies) 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.

Questions about Sievers' law

What is Sievers' law the alternative form of?
Sievers' law is the alternative form of Sievers's law.

Words near Sievers' law in the dictionary

  1. sievefuls
  2. sieveless
  3. sievelike
  4. siever
  5. sievers
  6. Sievers' law
  7. Sievers's law
  8. Sieversian
  9. sievert
  10. sieverts
  11. Sieverts' law

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