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has glosseng: Osthoff's law is an Indo-European sound law which states that long vowels shorten when followed by a resonant (PIE *m, *n, *l, *r, *y, *w), followed in turn by another consonant (i.e. in a closed syllable environment). It is named after German Indo-Europeanist Hermann Osthoff who first formulated it.
lexicalizationeng: Osthoff's law
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