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Siebs's law is: a Proto-Indo-European (PIE) phonological rule named after theââGerman linguist Theodor Siebs. According to this law, if an s-mobile is added to a root that starts with a voiced. Or aspirated stop, that stop is allophonically devoiced.
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Siebs proposed this law in the Zeitschrift fĂŒr vergleichende Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiete der indogermanischen Sprachen, as Anlautstudien. Oswald SzemerĂ©nyi rejected this rule, explaining that it is untenable and cites the contradiction present in Avestan zdÄ« from PIE *s-dÊ°i "be!" as counterproof. However, the PIE form is more accurately reconstructed as *hâs-dÊ°Ă from *hâes- (so not an s-mobile) and thus Siebs' law appears to demand that the sibilant and aspirated stop are both adjacent and tautosyllabic, something which is known to only occur in word-initial position in Proto-Indo-European anyway.
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- ^ Siebs 1904, p. 277â324.
- ^ Szemerényi 1999, p. 144.
Sourcesâ»
- Collinge, "N." E. (1985). The Laws of Indo-European. John Benjamins Publishing Co. ISBN 978-0-915027-75-0.
- Szemerényi, Oswald (1999). Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-823870-6.
- Siebs, Theodore (1904). Zeitschrift fĂŒr vergleichende Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiete der indogermanischen Sprachen.
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