# Sievers's law

> English word · Proper noun

## Definitions
1. A rule in Indo-European linguistics that accounts for the pronunciation of a consonant cluster with a glide (*w or *y) before a vowel as it was affected by the phonetics of the preceding syllable.

## Etymology
Named after the philologist Eduard Sievers (1850–1932).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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