Grassmann's law
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Grassmann's law, named after its discoverer Hermann Grassmann, is a dissimilatory phonological process in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit which states that if an aspirated consonant is followed by another
Hermann Grassmann
Mycenaean Greek
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Mycenaean Greek is the earliest attested form of the Greek language. It was spoken on the Greek mainland and Crete in Mycenaean Greece. The language is preserved in inscriptions in Linear B, a script
Grassmann's law
…stops and so it is not possible to tell if Grassmann's law ever operated in them. According to Filip De Decker, Grassmann's law had not operated in Mycenaean Greek yet, and it is almost certain that it occurred later than 1200 BC; it might even postdate the Homeric Greek period. In Koine Greek, in cases other than…
Warrior wearing a boar's tusk helmet, from a Mycenaean chamber tomb in the Acropolis of Athens, 14th–13th century BC.
Mycenaean Greek inscription written in Linear B, Archaeological Museum of Mycenae