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...
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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...
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He is known for formulating Osthoff's law, and published widely on Indo-European word-formation and morphology. Osthoff studied classical philology,...
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historical sound changes in Balto-Slavic Osthoff's law - regarding historical sound changes in Indo-European Pedersen's law - regarding historical sound changes...
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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...
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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...
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Proto-Greek language (section Cowgill's law)
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...
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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...
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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...
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the following table: Soon after the initial publications (Osthoff 1882; Kluge 1884), Kluge's law came to be considered an unnecessary hypothesis by several...
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