Fortunatov's law is the observation, in the development of
Indo-Aryan from
Proto-Indo-European
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family. No direct record of Proto-Indo-European exists; its proposed features have been derived by linguistic reconstruction from documented Indo-Euro ...
, that when ''*l'' is followed by a dental consonant, the dental becomes retroflex and the ''*l'' is deleted, eg. PIE ''*bʰelsos'' > Sanskrit ''bhā́ṣā'', Lithuanian ''bal̃sas'' and PIE *''poltos'' > Sanskrit ''paṭa'', Greek ''péltē'', Farsi ''parde''.
This law is not uniform.
See also
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Glottalic theory
The glottalic theory is that Proto-Indo-European had ejective or otherwise non- pulmonic stops, , instead of the plain voiced ones, as hypothesized by the usual Proto-Indo-European phonological reconstructions.
A forerunner of the theory was ...
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Grassmann's law
Grassmann's law, named after its discoverer Hermann Grassmann, is a dissimilatory phonological process in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit which states that if an Aspiration (phonetics), aspirated consonant is followed by another aspirated consonant ...
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Stigler's law of eponymy
Stigler's law of eponymy, proposed by University of Chicago statistics professor Stephen Stigler in his 1980 publication "Stigler's law of eponymy", states that "no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer." Examples include H ...
References
Indo-Iranian sound laws
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