of Unicode combining characters and Latin characters. Osthoff's law is an Indo-European sound law which states that long vowels shorten when followed by...

likely that Osthoff's Law also applied to Germanic, and that the loss of laryngeals such as h2 must have preceded the application of Grimm's Law. Internal...

He is known for formulating Osthoff's law, and published widely on Indo-European word-formation and morphology. Osthoff studied classical philology,...

historical sound changes in Balto-Slavic Osthoff's law - regarding historical sound changes in Indo-European Pedersen's law - regarding historical sound changes...

by a long vowel: ēō → eō when it is followed by u and s: ēus → eus (Osthoff's law): basilēos → basileōs "of a king" (genitive singular) basilēōn → basileōn...

syllable-final resonant (V:RC > VRC); this also shortens long diphthongs. (Osthoff's law) Plosives become *x before a different plosive or *s (C₁C₂ > xC₂, Cs...

post-Mycenaean, but occurred before the introduction of the Greek alphabet. Osthoff's law: Shortening of long vowels before a sonorant in the same syllable. E...

following diphthongs: Short: *ai, *ei, *oi, *au, *ou Long: *āi, *ēi, *ōi Osthoff's law remained productive in Proto-Italic. This caused long vowels to shorten...

vowel), the accent is advanced to the middle syllable, giving e-ó-X. Osthoff's law (All but Indo-Iranian and Tocharian) When a long vowel is followed by...

the following table: Soon after the initial publications (Osthoff 1882; Kluge 1884), Kluge's law came to be considered an unnecessary hypothesis by several...