Bartholomae's Law

Bartholomae's law is a phonetic law formulated by Christian Bartholomae in 1882 . It describes the development of a voiced aspirated plosive ( Media aspirata ) and an immediately following voiceless unaspirated plosive ( Tenuis ) to a sequence of a voiced unaspirated plosive and a voiced aspirated plosive, where the aspiration passes over to the second plosive, which also becomes voiced.

Bartholoma's law works in Indo-Iranian . For example, in Old Indian the dental sound -t- in the suffix -ta-, which is used to form the participle perfect passive , is voiced and aspirated if the root syllable has a voiced aspirated plosive in the final . The voiced aspirated plosive of the root syllable, on the other hand, loses aspiration. Compare: altind. labh 'grasped' + -ta- > labdha 'grasped'.

literature

Helmut Glück (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon Language . 3rd, revised edition, Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2005.

Individual proof

↑ Example based on Ludwig Rübekeil: Bartholoma's Law . In Helmut Glück (Ed.): Metzler Lexikon Sprache. Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2005, p. 84.

[1] Example based on Ludwig Rübekeil: Bartholoma's Law . In Helmut Glück (Ed.): Metzler Lexikon Sprache. Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2005, p. 84.