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SOUND LAW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A law describing sound changes in the history of a language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("sound law" is a kind of...):
law; natural law (a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sound law"):
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)
Holonyms ("sound law" is a part of...):
diachronic linguistics; diachrony; historical linguistics (the study of linguistic change)
