Talk:Glossary of sound laws in the Indo-European languages

Missing laws from Collinge

A sorted working list with comments. At least the following would probably need to be added:

• Fortunatov's law I

  *l + dental > retroflex in Indo-Aryan

• Law of Palatals

  *K⁽ʷ⁾e > *Ča in Indo-Iranian

• Rix's law

  *HR̥C- is subject to laryngeal vowel coloring in Greek

• Sievers' law II

  *gʷʰ > *w in Germanic, various conditions have been proposed

• Thurneysen's law

  proposes fricative voicing dissimilation in Gothic after unstressed syllables; many details disputed

• Thurneysen-Havet's law

  *o > *a in Latin, at minimum before *wV́

• Wackernagel's law II

  *V₁V₂ > *V̄₂ crasis in Greek compound words

Missing laws concerning accentuation are particularly numerous:

• From Balto-Slavic or Slavic: Dolobko's law, Ebeling's law, Fortunatov's law II, Garde's rule, Hartmann's law, Illič-Svityč's law, Kortlandt's law, Nieminen's law, Pedersen's law II, Šaxmatov's law
• From Greek: Bártoli's law, Hirt's law II, Vendryes' law, Wheeler's law

Proposed but obsolete or disputed laws from Appendix I:

• Bugge's rule: proposes as an extension to Verner's that voiceless stops > voiced fricatives word-initially when at least two syllables away from stress
• Endzelin's law: proposes *éi > *ḗ > ie in Baltic
• Georgiev's law: proposes word-initial *V̆CC > *CV̄C in Slavic
• Streitberg's law: proposes that long grades would always occur preceding a zero grade

Some laws seem too narrow or too general in scope to belong in this article:

• Aitken's law = Scots vowel length rule
• Bugge's canon: levelling of Old Latin -d to -t in personal endings
• Mac Neill's law: final *n, *l > nn, ll after a *short vowel in Irish
• Notker's law: an orthographic rule from Old High German

while some are morphological or syntactic rather than sound laws:

• Caland's law = Caland system; not usually considered a "law" (as also admitted by Collinge)
• Wackernagel's law: governs the sentence position of clitics
• Watkin's law: a general law of the special role of 3rd person in personal paradigm evolution

--Trɔpʏliʊm • blah 20:56, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

error in Devanagari

Sanskrit विराः vīráḥ 'man, hero'.

This gets both vowels' quantities wrong: vĭrāḥ. (I don't know how to correct it.) —Tamfang (talk) 03:11, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

Absolutely correct, thank you for catching this. I have replaced it with वीरः! ThaesOfereode (talk) 15:46, 17 September 2024 (UTC)