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Sound law   /saʊnd lɔ/   Listen
Sound law

noun
1.
A law describing sound changes in the history of a language.






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"Sound law" Quotes from Famous Books



... next act deserves more notice. It must not be forgotten that Molyneux's "Case of Ireland," which the parliaments of England and Ireland first burnt, and ended by declaring and enacting as sound law, was published in 1699, just ten years after this parliament of James's. Doubtless the antique rights of the native Irish, the comparative independence of the Pale, the arguments of Darcy, the memory of ...
— Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry • Thomas Davis



Words linked to "Sound law" :   historical linguistics, Verner's law, natural law, diachronic linguistics, law, Grimm's law, diachrony



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