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The ‘Converse of Sievers’ Law' and the Germanic First-Class Weak Verbs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

James W. Marchand
James W. Marchand*
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Washington University
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Language , Volume 32 , Issue 2-Part1: April-June , June 1956, pp. 285 - 286
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Copyright © 1956 by the Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 W. P. Lehmann, The Proto-Indo-European resonants in Germanic, Lg. 31.355–67 (1955).

2 Edgerton was unable to find evidence outside of Vedic, cf. his Sievers's law and IE weak-grade vocalism, Lg. 10.240 f. (1934), and The Indo-European semivowels, Lg. 19.90 (1943).

3 Lehman 361.

4 Cf. W. Streitberg, Urgermanische Grammatik 305 f. (Heidelberg, 1896).

5 For a discussion of the various IE types from which the Germanic weak verbs of the 1st class derived, see E. Kieckers, Handbuch der vergleichenden gotischen Grammatik 223–4 (Munich, 1928).

6 Cf. Latin-sāgīs, -sāgit (with -it from earlier *-īt), -sāgītis.

7 Cf. Latin capis, capit, capitis.

8 Cf. Skt. jō áyate.

9 Cf. OCS ložiti.

10 On the possibility that the change may be somewhat later than usually thought, see Konstantin Reichardt, The inscription on helmet B of Negau, Lg. 29.307 (1953). His view is not the usual one.

11 See J. Kurylowicz, La nature des procès dits analogiques, AL 5.15–20 (1949).