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Szemerényi's law

Szemerényi's law proper noun: a sound change and a synchronic phonological rule that operated during an early stage of the Proto-Indo-European language. The rule deleted coda fricatives *s or laryngeals *h₁, *h₂ or *h₃ (cover symbol *H), with compensatory lengthening occurring in a word-final position.

Proper noun

Szemerényi's law

  1. (Indo-European-studies) A sound change and a synchronic phonological rule that operated during an early stage of the Proto-Indo-European language. The rule deleted coda fricatives *s or laryngeals *h₁, *h₂ or *h₃ (cover symbol *H), with compensatory lengthening occurring in a word-final position.

Origin of Szemerényi's law

Named after Hungarian linguist Oswald Szemerényi.

Questions about Szemerényi's law

What does Szemerényi's law mean?
Szemerényi's law means a sound change and a synchronic phonological rule that operated during an early stage of the Proto-Indo-European language. The rule deleted coda fricatives *s or laryngeals *h₁, *h₂ or *h₃ (cover symbol *H), with compensatory lengthening occurring in a word-final position.
What part of speech is Szemerényi's law?
Szemerényi's law is a proper noun.

Words near Szemerényi's law in the dictionary

  1. Szeles
  2. Szeliga
  3. Szeligas
  4. Szemerédi's theorem
  5. Szemerényi
  6. Szemerényi's law
  7. Szenberg
  8. Szenbergs
  9. szenicsite
  10. Szentendre
  11. Szentes

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