Ślady prawa Grimma w angielszczyźnie w zestawieniu z polskimi wyrazami pokrewnymi: pie. *p > pgerm. *f
The traces of Grimm’s Law in Polish-English cognates: PIE *p > PGmc *f

Summary/Abstract: Grimm’s Law is a sound change which caused considerable divergence between Germanic and other Indo-European languages, and consequently, is responsible for certain sound differences between modern Polish and modern English. The text of the present paper concentrates on the part of Grimm’s Law describing the change of PIE *p > PGmc *f and presents the traces of this change which are preserved in Polish-English cognates. Each example is accompanied by forms in Gothic and Old Church Slavonic and, if these are unattested, in other closely related languages as well as Proto-Slavic, Proto- Germanic and Proto-Indo-European reconstructions. The paper reports on the initial findings of the research and focuses on cognates which descended from common etymons of identical phonological and morphological structure.

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