• Meillet's law is a Common Slavic accent law, named after the French Indo-Europeanist Antoine Meillet, who discovered it. According to the law, Slavic...
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  • syllables when followed by a long syllable or internal yer. According to Meillet's law, words with a mobile accent paradigm lost the acute feature in the first...
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    1932: Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine. Meillet's law Pierre Chantraine Antoine Meillet (1912). "L'évolution des formes grammaticales". Scientia...
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    reworked during the Proto-Slavic and Common Slavic period (Dybo's law, Meillet's law, Ivšić's law, etc.), resulting in three Common Slavic accentual paradigms...
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    acted to modify this basic system: Meillet's law, which removed any stem acutes in mobile-accent words. Dybo's law, which advanced the accent in non-acute...
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  • accent in words belonging to the mobile accent paradigm. In such forms, Meillet's law resulted in loss of the acute register on the root, so that all initial-accented...
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  • (Dybo's law, Illič-Svityč's law, Meillet's law etc.), and further developments yielded some new accents, such as the so-called neoacute (Ivšić's law), or...
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  • Ivšić's law Accented weak yers (according to Havlík's law) lost their accent to the preceding syllable, which received a "neoacute" accent. Meillet's law In...
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    *d, *g Merger of *o and *a: PIE *a/*o, *ā/*ō → PS *a, *ā (→ CS *o, *a) Law of open syllables: All closed syllables (syllables ending in a consonant)...
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    that his people "had already rejected paganism and adhere to the Christian law." Rastislav is said to have expelled missionaries of the Roman Church and...
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    Monophthongization Dybo's law Havlík's law Hirt's law Illič-Svityč's law Ivšić's law Meillet's law Pedersen's law Ruki sound law Van Wijk's law Winter's law Italics indicate...
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  • Balto-Slavic mobile paradigms were not split in this way thanks to Meillet's law, and remained unified in accent paradigm c. There is no consensus among...
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  • findings strong but limited in scope, citing both Weise's and Meillet's works on the law in his own research on the Balto-Slavic languages.: 238  In 1995...
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  • Mitra (category Law in ancient history)
    derivation was *meh "to measure" (Gray 1929). Pokorny (IEW 1959) refined Meillet's *mei as "to bind". Combining the root *mei with the "tool suffix" -tra-...
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  • from Antoine Meillet, to the effect that a language is a dialect with an army. Up to now the source has not been found in the works of Meillet." Laponce...
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    linked to another detail, but one linguistic system to another. — Antoine Meillet, La méthode comparative en linguistique historique, 1966 [1925], pp. 12–13...
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    addressed, and all the various dialects of Vulgar Latin. The linguist Antoine Meillet wrote: "Without the exterior appearance of the language being much modified...
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    Italo-Celtic subgroup was at one point uncontroversial, considered by Antoine Meillet to be even better established than Balto-Slavic. The main lines of evidence...
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  • names; the forms below are transliterated according to the Hübschmann-Meillet-Benveniste system: The Armenian calendar gives the days of the month names...
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    a naturalistic interpretation of Indo-Iranian mythology. Nonetheless, Meillet's theory remains relevant and important for the study of Indo-Iranian culture...
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    PhD at the Sorbonne in Paris and was a student of the linguist Antoine Meillet. In his dissertations, which were published in French in 1928, Parry demonstrated...
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    of the paradigm is called 'value' (French: valeur). In France, Antoine Meillet and Émile Benveniste continued Saussure's project, and members of the Prague...
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  • Case Theory. Building on prior work by Antoine Meillet, Kuryłowicz's is also known for his "Six Laws of Analogy" that have been widely used in historical...
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    Knésetja (category Early Germanic law)
    German Kniesetzung) is the Old Norse expression for a custom in Germanic law, by which adoption was formally expressed by setting the fosterchild on the...
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  • на Словороде (сайт Игоря Гаршина)". Matasović 2008:47 Meillet & Vaillant 1934:508 By the RUKI law: *#ks- > *#kš- > *#kx- > *#x-. Sometimes PIE *#sk- metathesizes...
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    Centum and satem languages (category Sound laws)
    phonematic category rather than the disappearance of an inherited one. Antoine Meillet (1937) proposed that the original rows were the labiovelars and palatovelars...
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    Lewis and Charles Short. A Latin Dictionary on Perseus Project. Ernout & Meillet s.v. oleum. ἐλαία, ἔλαιον. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English...
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  • was coined by the French linguist Antoine Meillet in his L'évolution des formes grammaticales (1912). Meillet's definition was "the attribution of grammatical...
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    Indo-Europeans spoke should come and listen to a Lithuanian peasant. — Antoine Meillet Among Indo-European languages, Lithuanian is conservative in some aspects...
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    vowel system is highly comparable to that reconstructed for PIE by Antoine Meillet. The following monophthongs are reconstructed: The following diphthongs...
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