Glossary of sound laws in the Indo-European languages explained

This glossary gives a general overview of the various sound laws that have been formulated by linguists for the various Indo-European languages. A concise description is given for each rule; more details are given in their respective articles.

Within Proto-Indo-European or multiple branches

See main article: Bartholomae's law.

See main article: grc.

See main article: Grassmann's law.

See main article: Osthoff's law.

See main article: Pinault's law.

See main article: ruki sound law.

See main article: Siebs's law.

See main article: Stang's law.

See main article: Szemerényi's law.

See main article: Weise's law.

Balto-Slavic

See main article: Hirt's law.

See main article: Pedersen's law.

See main article: Winter's law.

Slavic

See main article: Dybo's law.

See main article: Havlík's law.

See main article: Ivšić's law.

See main article: Meillet's law.

Germanic

See main article: Germanic spirant law.

See main article: Grimm's law.

See main article: Holtzmann's law.

See main article: Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law.

See main article: Kluge's law.

See main article: Sievers's law.

See main article: Verner's law.

Indo-Iranian

See main article: Brugmann's law.

See main article: Fortunatov's law.

Italic

See main article: Lachmann's law.

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