ABSTRACT
Discovered by Grassmann (1863), sound change occurring independently in Sanskrit and Greek which consistently results in a dissimilation of aspirated stops. If at least two aspirated stops occur in a single word. then only the last stop retains its aspiration, all preceding aspirates are deaspirated; cf. IE *bhebhoudhe> Skt bubodha ‘had awakened,’ IE *dhidhehmi> Grk títhēmi ‘I set, I put.’ This law, which was discovered through internal reconstruction, turned a putative ‘exception’ to the Germanic sound shift ( Grimm’s law) into a law.
