• symbols instead of Unicode combining characters and Latin characters. Sievers's law in Indo-European linguistics accounts for the pronunciation of a consonant...
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  • and /o/, in various "northern" languages Bartholomae's law in Indo-Iranian, and Sievers's law in Proto-Germanic and (to some extent) various other branches...
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  • to Clarke's third law. Shirky principle: "Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution." Sievers's law, in Indo-European...
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  • of number in set theory Large sieve, a method of analytic number theory Larger sieve, a heightening of the large sieve Law of large numbers, a result in...
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  • anchor. After graduating secondary school with his Abitur in 1989, Sievers studied law in Berlin and Freiburg. During his studies, he also worked at various...
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    few apart from Sievers and those close to him. His analysis was widely, though not universally, accepted among philologists. Sievers's work on the rhythms...
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  • were generally lengthened or geminated in that position. Because of Sievers' law, only consonants immediately after a short vowel were affected by the...
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  • subfamilies and languages. Germanic spirant law Grimm's law Holtzmann's law Sievers' law Verner's law Kluge's law Germanic a-mutation Germanic umlaut (all...
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    Wolfram Sievers (10 July 1905 – 2 June 1948) was a Nazi and convicted war criminal for medical atrocities carried out while he was managing director...
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    European Union law is a system of rules operating within the member states of the European Union (EU). Since the founding of the European Coal and Steel...
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  • found elsewhere in the early Germanic languages, e.g. in the handling of Sievers' law in Proto-Norse, as well as in the metric rules of Germanic alliterative...
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  • (2006:68–93) Adamczyk, Elzbieta (1 January 2001). "Old English reflexes of Sievers' Law". Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: International Review of English Studies...
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  • contributed to Indo-European linguistics by showing that Edgerton's Law (an extension of Sievers' Law) is untenable when all the evidence is taken into account...
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  • Nectar in a Sieve is a 1954 novel by Kamala Markandaya. The book is set in India during a period of intense urban development and is the chronicle of...
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  • sieving coefficient that are greater than one require an external energy source, as they would otherwise violate the laws of thermodynamics. Sieving coefficients...
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    following an obstruent. An alternation not triggered by sound change was Sievers' law, which caused alternation of suffixal -j- and -ij- depending on the length...
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    except r, before /j/. This only occurred in short-stemmed words due to Sievers' law. Gemination of /p/, /t/, /k/ and /h/ is also observed before liquids...
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  • next to their corresponding glide in certain phonetic environments. Sievers' law describes this behaviour for Germanic. Non-high semivowels also occur...
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  • in the history of the Germanic languages were Sievers' law and the Germanic spirant law. Sievers' law caused a restriction on the distribution between...
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  • dry sieving A method of sifting artefacts from excavated sediments by shaking it through sieves or meshes of varying sizes. As opposed to wet sieving, which...
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  • with a following *n and become geminate voiceless plosives in Germanic. Sievers' law Suffixal *j alternates with *ij depending on the syllable weight (length)...
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    utröna "find out". The word formation with a suffix ija is evidence of Sievers' law. Golden Horn of Gallehus 2, South Jutland, Denmark 400 CE, ek hlewagastiz...
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  • Darcy's law is an equation that describes the flow of a fluid through a porous medium. The law was formulated by Henry Darcy based on results of experiments...
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    Yet Celtic women were somewhat better placed in inheritance and marriage law than their Greek and Roman contemporaries. Knowledge of the situation of...
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  • symbols instead of Unicode combining characters and Latin characters. Verner's law describes a historical sound change in the Proto-Germanic language whereby...
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  • "to divide" is shown here in the present tense. Note that because of Sievers' law, there are two possible endings in the present tense. One set, the one...
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  • Kluge's law is a controversial Proto-Germanic sound law formulated by Friedrich Kluge. It purports to explain the origin of the Proto-Germanic long consonants...
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  • long vowel or by another consonant were never followed by /j/ due to Sievers' law. PG *bidjaną, *habjaną > OE biddan, habban > ModE bid, have This period...
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  • assumptions about synchronic PIE phonology that are not universally accepted: Sievers' Law applies in all positions and to all resonants, including *i, *u, *r,...
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    molecular sieves. Treatment of 96% ethanol with molecular sieves gives anhydrous alcohol, the sieves having adsorbed water from the mixture. The sieves can...
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