Hirt's law
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English
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Etymology
[edit]Named after Hermann Hirt, who postulated it in 1895.
Proper noun
[edit]- A Balto-Slavic sound law stating that the inherited Proto-Indo-European stress would retract to a non-ablauting pretonic vowel or a syllabic sonorant if it was followed by a consonantal (non-syllabic) laryngeal that closed the preceding syllable.