See Also: Sievers' law(dictionary)

Sievers' law (iou)



Sievers' law noun phr. M20.
[Eduard Sievers (1850-1932), German philologist.]
Philology. A rule stating that in Indo-European, (post-consonantal) unaccented i and u before a vowel were consonantal after a short syllable and vocalic after a long syllable. Also Sievers-Edgerton law.