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has glosseng: Kluge's Law is a Proto-Germanic sound law formulated by Friedrich Kluge. It describes the assimilation of an n to a preceding voiced consonant, under the condition that the n was part of a suffix which was accented in Proto-Indo-European (PIE). This law explains the origin of the Proto Germanic geminates *kk, *tt and *pp. Even though Kluge does not claim to have originally discovered the phenomenon, it is still named after him, because he provided the canonical formulation of the sound law.
lexicalizationeng: Kluge's Law
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