"Sievers's law" meaning in All languages combined

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Proper name [English]

Etymology: Named after the philologist Eduard Sievers (1850–1932). Head templates: {{en-prop}} Sievers's law
  1. A rule in Indo-European linguistics that accounts for the pronunciation of a consonant cluster with a glide (*w or *y) before a vowel as it was affected by the phonetics of the preceding syllable. Wikipedia link: Eduard Sievers
    Sense id: en-Sievers's_law-en-name-XIARubYA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys

Alternative forms

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