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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...

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...

1932: Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine. Meillet's law Pierre Chantraine Antoine Meillet (1912). "L'évolution des formes grammaticales". Scientia...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

nasals are lost after short vowels and nasalized after long vowels. Meillet's law In words with a mobile accent paradigm, if the first syllable is accented...

*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)...

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...

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...

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...

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. In 1995, Robert...

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-...

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...

linked to another detail, but one linguistic system to another. — Antoine Meillet, La méthode comparative en linguistique historique, 1966 [1925], pp. 12–13...

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...

names; the forms below are transliterated according to the Hübschmann-Meillet-Benveniste system: The Armenian calendar gives the days of the month names...

addressed, and all the various dialects of Vulgar Latin. The linguist Antoine Meillet wrote: "Without the exterior appearance of the language being much modified...

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...