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Verner alternation en · NOUN

Etymology

From Verner's law, itself named after 19th century Danish linguist Karl Verner.

Meanings

  1. (Indo-European-studies, countable, uncountable) The alternation between consonants in different forms of a word stem in the Germanic languages, as a result of Verner's law.

Forms

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Verner alternations Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

grammatical alternation · grammatischer Wechsel

Translations (3)

de grammatischer Wechsel (Alternation between consonants in the Germanic languages) · pl prawo Vernera (Alternation between consonants in the Germanic languages) · nl grammatische wisseling (Alternation between consonants in the Germanic languages)