SOUND LAW

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A law describing sound changes in the history of a language

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("sound law" is a kind of...):

law; natural law (a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sound law"):

Grimm's law (a sound law relating German consonants and consonants in other Indo-European languages)

Verner's law (a qualification of Grimm's law)

Holonyms ("sound law" is a part of...):