KnowraGrimm's lawLinked fromLinked fromThe 25 pages that link to Grimm's law, each with the reason it gives.All 25Broader topic 9Related 12Compared with 4Germanic languagesRelated: It explains characteristic correspondences between Germanic consonants and those in other Indo-European branches.Proto-GermanicRelated: It is the best-known sound change distinguishing Proto-Germanic from other Indo-European branches.Brothers GrimmRelated: Jacob Grimm's linguistic research produced this foundational account of Germanic sound change.West Germanic languagesRelated: It establishes inherited Germanic consonant patterns that West Germanic later reshaped.NeogrammariansRelated: Its patterns became a classic subject for Neogrammarian analysis and refinement.North Germanic languagesRelated: It helps explain shared inherited sounds across Germanic, including North Germanic.Verner's lawRelated: Verner's law explains why Grimm's law's voiceless fricatives sometimes became voiced.High German consonant shiftRelated: The shift continued Germanic consonant change, but affected different sounds and occurred later.Gothic languageRelated: Gothic consonants display key outcomes of these historical sound changes.Wilhelm GrimmRelated: It shows how the brothers’ scholarship also transformed historical linguistics, chiefly through Jacob’s work.History of EnglishRelated: It helps explain the consonant patterns inherited by the Germanic ancestors of English.Sievers's lawRelated: It provides the historical sound-change framework alongside which Sievers's law was studied.