Dybo's law en · PROPN
Etymology
Named after the Soviet accentologist Vladimir Dybo.
Meanings
- (Indo-European-studies) A law posited to explain the occurrence of nouns and verbs in Slavic languages that are invariantly accented on the inflectional ending.
- (Indo-European-studies) A proposed sound law for some branches of Indo-European which posits that long vowels (often reflecting a sequence of short vowel plus laryngeal) inherited from Proto-Indo-European were shortened when immediately preceding an accented syllable.
Synonyms
pretonic shortening · Dybo's rule
Translations (2)
cs Dybův zákon (Translations) · pt lei de Dybo (Translations)