About the Author

German philologist and folklorist in 1822 formulated Grimm's Law, the basis for much of modern comparative linguistics. With his brother (1786-1859) , he collected Germanic folk tales and published them as Indo-European stop consonants, represented in Germanic, underwent the regular changes that Grimm's Law describes; this law essentially states that Indo-European shifted to Germanic shifted to , and shifted to . Indo-European shifted to Germanic shifted to , and shifted to . Indo-European shifted to Germanic shifted to , and shifted to This jurist and mythologist also authored the monumental and his Adapted from

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