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Is this Grimm's Law, by Jacob Grimm of "Grimm's Fairy Tales" fame?
by QuesnayJr 6y ago
Is this Grimm's Law, by Jacob Grimm of "Grimm's Fairy Tales" fame?
- aasasd 6y agoSure sounds like it. Though I'm fairly certain that I wouldn't forget Grimm's name like that (the tales are childhood's staple where I am)—so maybe Rasmus Rask or Karl Verner was instead mentioned when I heard of the general concept being attributed at all. Which, rather weirdly, was only one time in a lecture by Andrey Zaliznyak on Youtube, even though I heard of how shifts work before and after that—you'd think such an important discovery would at least more often bear the name of its author.
- ahazred8ta 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm%27s_law#See_also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm%27s_law#See_also There were a lot of sound shifts.
- bradrn 6y agoThe very same! He wrote a whole series of books about German — a history of German, a grammar of German, a dictionary of German, and, yes, a collection of old German stories.