1773: Grassman's Law pt. 1 Oct 22, 2019

Grimm's Law—a set of principles for Germanic consonantal development—was significant and gained deserved recognition, but it is not the only one of its kind. Grassmann's Law, devised for Ancient Greek and Sanskrit, posits, basically, that an aspirated consonant will become unaspirated if there is another aspirated consonant in the following syllable. Unlike Grimm's Law, this is less focused on roots and includes more morphemes in various linguistic contexts. It still helps to explain transitions from Ancient to Modern Greek, such as with the copulative prefix 'ha-' that has become in 'a-', like in the word 'adelphos' looked at yesterday. There will be more on this tomorrow.