Grimm's law (also known as the First Germanic Sound Shift or the Rask's-Grimm's rule) named for Jacob Grimm, is a set of statements describing the inherited Proto-Indo-European ...
by John Lawler Program in Linguistics * University of Michigan with Kevin McGowan Copyright © 1993-1997 The Eclectic Company For non-commercial use only
Grimm's Law n. A formula describing the regular changes undergone by Indo-European stop consonants represented in Germanic, essentially stating that