grassman's law

Grassman's law

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Definition of grassman's law words

noun grassman's law an observation, made by H. G. Grassman, that when aspirated consonants occurred in successive syllables in Sanskrit and classical Greek, one, usually the first, was unaspirated, becoming a voiced stop in Sanskrit and a voiceless stop in Greek. 1

before 1890

One of the 20% newest English words

First recorded in 1890-95

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