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Meaning of Dybo's law | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

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  1. A law posited to explain the occurrence of nouns and verbs in Slavic languages that are invariantly accented on the inflectional ending.
    Indo-European-studies
  2. A proposed sound law for some branches of Indo-European which posits that long vowels (often reflecting a sequence of short vowel plus laryngeal) inherited from Proto-Indo-European were shortened when immediately preceding an accented syllable.
    Indo-European-studies

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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